Tanks

[Rizzo_]

Just going to put my opinion here... Am I the only one who seems to think there would be more people playing a tank job if they looked more appealing? I'd love to be a tank but I just feel the two current tank jobs we have now just don't appeal to me as much as a DPS would or a Healer. I believe if the tank jobs had let's say wielded a greatsword or something else more exciting id definitely be a tank but hey thats just my view.

[Doo]

Nah every mmo there's a shortage of tanks.

Getting hit while not doing much damage back isn't as appealing as doing big dmg with less responsibilities.

[Rizzo_]

Nah every mmo there's a shortage of tanks.

Getting hit while not doing much damage back isn't as appealing as doing big dmg with less responsibilities.

I know theres a shortage of tanks on ever mmo and it depends how you look at it damage isnt everything since tanks are without a doubt the most important player on a team

[Galliano]

I know theres a shortage of tanks on ever mmo and it depends how you look at it damage isnt everything since tanks are without a doubt the most important player on a team

None of the roles are "the most important", it's the holy trinity, can't have one without the others.

DPS goes and you die from taking too long on rage moves etc, healers go and everyone dies because... well... no heals, tank goes and the mobs/boss swarm the healers and DPS.

[OPneedNerfs]

Most mechanics look like this in MMOs with the holy trinity:

Tank dies, hard to recover or complete wipe.

Healer dies, hard to recover or complete wipe.

DPS dies, rez or no rez instantly won't matter much, group recovers as if nothing happened.

It just takes a special kind of person to take up the responsibility of tanking or healing. Sadly, there are less of said kinds of people than there are of people who just want to burn the target, dodge stuff, receive win.

[Rizzo_]

Most mechanics look like this in MMOs with the holy trinity:

Tank dies, hard to recover or complete wipe.

Healer dies, hard to recover or complete wipe.

DPS dies, rez or no rez instantly won't matter much, group recovers as if nothing happened.

It just takes a special kind of person to take up the responsibility of tanking or healing. Sadly, there are less of said kinds of people than there are of people who just want to burn the target, dodge stuff, receive win.

This is it exactly. The DPS role seems too easy at times compared to Tank or Healer since there's barely any responsibility. I would definitely pick up the tank role in the future if I find a tank job I like

[lololink]

This is it exactly. The DPS role seems too easy at times compared to Tank or Healer since there's barely any responsibility. I would definitely pick up the tank role in the future if I find a tank job I like

Except that's not that in reality, look at titan, one death, whoever it is, means wipe.
Same for all DPS Check.

[Rizzo_]

Except that's not that in reality, look at titan, one death, whoever it is, means wipe.
Same for all DPS Check.

But that's only in one aspect and also titan is more about skill rather than jobs

[Ricky]

But that's only in one aspect and also titan is more about skill rather than jobs

Every extreme primal has DPS checks as well as Twintania in Coil, they throw enrage timers on everything for just this reason

[Vmage]

Except that's not that in reality, look at titan, one death, whoever it is, means wipe.
Same for all DPS Check.

that's not even true, whether you're talking about story titan, or hm titan, or titan x

you can easily recover from losing a dps (my first titan x kill we had 3-4 deaths throughout, still managed to meet the dps checks)

to be fair though, there are quite a few openings where you can lose a tank/healer and still have time to rez them and recover

but.. if a tank or healer eats a landslide, that's almost always a wipe, a dps though? yeah you can 7 man titan x