Why are you not a tank?

[Sephirah]

I couldn't tell you. Despite all the frustration and grief that we catch sometimes, I love it.

I will say this though, after learning how to tank in this game and being pretty good at it, I find it extremely frustrating to be anything but a tank. When I'm DPS I don't feel like what I do is nearly as important, I'm not saying DPS isn't important, I'm just saying I personally feel like what I'm doing as DPS is less important than what I'm doing while a tank. Additionally, when you know you can tank something, it is extremely frustrating when you're paired with a tank that can't.

[Delorean]

I couldn't tell you. Despite all the frustration and grief that we catch sometimes, I love it.

Personally I have only gotten grief about tanking once in the 2 months I have been playing the game.

BRD got mad because I was not used to playing WAR after playing PLD for 2 weeks, did my combos wrong, started with the wrong combo, having a bad day and decided to wipe last boss on AK since the positioning was altered. In retrospect positioning is something that could have easily been fixed. We also had a not so pleasant conversation being from the same server and all, but the way I acted after we finished and talked to each other was worse than anyone played.

Always regret it, wish I could take it back, they probably think that I was not being sincere when I apologized for my behavior.

Sometimes I wonder if players really do treat tanks poorly though, because I just never get it. People always say tanking is a thankless job as well, and I mean while I am not praised for what I do in every group, I have received some praise every now and then.

I Tank because on top of the dps in this game being fragile, I really do not enjoy playing Dragoon because of it's positional requirements and have heard Monks are worse about them.

But there are MMOs where I have chosen not to play a tank and am strongly opposed to playing one. The reasons are as follows.

It's too easy.
I don't really feel like I am contributing as a tank.

The reasons why I think other players do not play a tank are as follows.

Because they don't want to play a tank.

Because while what a tank does is critical to success, at a basic level it is nothing spectacular. Tanks are expected to be able to fulfill basic expectations like holding aggro.

Tanks are expected to be experienced players that can lead a group to success.