Mindblowingly new-old idea-question that would reduce queue times for DD's

[Hanabira]

None of those mechanics are actually new, and a 5 (or 6) person standard party transformed into a 10 or 20 or 25 (or whatever) raid has led to some extremely creative mechanics in the games you've decided are nothing more than tank and spank.

I never said it was new, but stuff like that is impossible with a single tank and healer. the fights have to be designed in a way where the battles are relatively safe because a single healer wont be able to keep the tank and the dps alive. And 10,20 and 25 man parties have creative mechanics because like a ffxiv 8 man, multiple tanks, multiple healers can be used to form smaller parties and introduce new mechanics to battle than just a simple hold hate and hit hard. you proved my point.

I agree, in most other games (that i've played), the 20 man raids usually only had and/or needed 2-3 tanks anyways. In FF14 a 24 man raid will have 6 (SIX!!!) tanks. Tbh that seems a little silly.

i bet you those battles will have some very interesting mechanics that utilize all of them. of course better parties will be able to reduce it to likely 4 tanks, but you know what i mean.

[ashikenshin]

Tanks are hard to come by in dungeons. For raids you are not needed anymore. Anyone wants a warrior for titan? anyone? I'm pretty geared! no? okay ok, so coils! anyone want a warrior for coils? no? paladin? you are full on tanks? okay

[Ri_ri]

How about you threat tanks and healers better, so more people are willing to play them?

[Lord_Zlatan]

/doubletrollface ^^

[Steeled]

Other than expanding the size of parties to help the DPS/Tank ratio.

There is one other thing that could be done to add a huge amount of tanks to the game.

Add a new tank class. The rush to play a new class will pull people away from everything else, and balance out the game a little more.

This isn't true. People who will tank, will tank. People who will heal, will heal. People who suck at one, the other, or both, will suck at one, the other, or both. They're not going to make a simple tank (simpler than Paladin anyway, lol) just to attract people. At least, I hope they don't.

I'm always on one of my tanks or healers and there are a lot of people like me (either because they like the class, or just like the faster queue). Giving us another class to fate grind doesn't make anything better.