Why are you not a tank?

[Doo]

My biggest problem with tank is that everyone expects me to be the leader and know where to go and what to do as tank.

That's the main reason players don't play tank, too much responsibilities (That's why tanks tend to be elitist jerks as well). You pretty much have to study fights before you do them because if you mess up, everyone gets mad and leaves usually. Also it's more fun to just mindlessly do damage that's why 80 percent of mmo players play dd.

[Destinova]

<----------- lawl says Gladiator and picture of my whm when I am a Paladin. I love being a tank.

[Arkista]

if someone think monk skill rotation is complicate,
that's because their key settings are very wrong.& they don't know what they are doing.

please see this picture

1-3 key are flank attack, 4-5 are back attack, 6 whatever, Q,E key are dot (time:30s, 18s)

here is how you can do full damage with monk:
1. Q,E,1,2,3,4,5,6
2. E,1,2,3,4,5,6
3. repeat steps 1&2

And this is why a lot of MNKs have crap DPS.

[TitusAldin]

Same reason as OP. I don't want to be the dungeon encyclopedia.

Could be they are also a pig to level. As White Mage I get 6K for a fate when everyone else gets 20K I don't know what it's like for Tank.

ummm how do you only get 6k? fate grind as a healer is easy mode. run in spam medica, you dnt need to do any damage. contribution for fates is based on aggro. not damage.

Ex: lets say your in a party and each party member has hit a target that is a part of a fate making the total targets 7, one medica will put you on all seven of those targets aggro list, that alone culd net you a gold rank.

Even as a GLD/PLD i never even bothered with flash i chose an aoe class in my party and spam cured them.

[CHunterX]

I already geared up MNK and SMN because my friends (who have all quit by now) were all playing tanks. Gearing up another class is literally just a weekly chore, so I play actual games on 3DS instead of doing chores every week to gear another class.

[Hyrist]

Why?

Trust issues, mainly.

I don't want to tank for randoms. There's too much pressure in the expectation to do well or near-perfect, even if you're not accustomed to tanking. I am working on a tank, so I can tank for friend, but they know I'm not the best at it, that I'm learning how to improve, but at the same time I'm not going to stress myself out over it. I'll learn as I go, I'll improve by doing and making mistakes, failing and recovering.

But that's not good enough for people on the Duty Finder, and I'm not wanting to ruin my time dealing with the fallout from it.

So that's why I tend to avoid the DF as a tank.

[Doo]

I remember my first time doing group content as a tank in duty finder. It was Basic training: Enemy Parties and the dd was raging at me for not facing the mobs the other way even though he was a range dd. I don't even think the adds have frontal aoe.

Then you got healers that spam medica 2 in titan fight and call you a bad tank for not being able to hold hate.

[Seig345]

Why?

Trust issues, mainly. [...]

This is more or less my issue. Many groups run fine, but more often than not I get one of three types of groups in the DF:

1: Everyone is quiet, but no one wants to focus as a team, and instead I'll have both DPS attacking two different monsters, and a healer that's going nuts trying to keep up healing 3 different people instead of just myself (or even better, they're pulling monsters too with Aero and Stone).

2: People know what they're doing, but will whine the moment something doesn't go exactly the way their static/FC group does it, aka DPS that will run ahead of me and pull stuff because we're not going "fast enough" (gotta go fast, lerl 9_6), etc.

3: 1 and 2 combined, they attack all but what I've pulled/pull on themselves first, get themselves killed, Healer gets aggro from trying to heal 3 people at once and pulls aggro on themself and dies, and they all blame me.

I try to explain what's going wrong and how to improve so that everyone focuses on the dungeon as a team instead of just "I do mah thang and you keep the hate, kthx", but then I get labeled as an elitist know-it-all bossy tank.

Me: We should focus on one monster at a time so I can keep the hate off the healer and the healer only has to worry about healing myself except for emergencies.
DPS: You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big!

When the DF is a crapshoot between level-headed individuals and children like these, it really isn't any surprise that tanks are in short supply in the DF pool.