Tanks

[Doo]

Generally bosses hit hard. That is what makes the tank important. The role is to literally soak damage so no one else does, you can't honestly think people don't play it because of responsibility or any of that garbage, right? The only role with any ACTUAL responsibility is the healer, and even then the responsibility only exists because you have one job. Everyone has one job. It's not some magic thing where suddenly tanks and healers do more work than any other member of the team.

Tanks need to know the fight before hand or they will get the most hate from others. They are responsible for pulling and positioning. Also they need to be the most geared to absorb damage. Healers for the most part, can just basically react and heal.

[Aicasia]

Tanks need to know the fight before hand or they will get the most hate from others. They are responsible for pulling and positioning. Also they need to be the most geared to absorb damage. Healers for the most part, can just basically react and heal.

Everyone is responsible for positioning. Everyone should know the fight before hand, the amount of hate a role gets is irrelevant.

I have yet to read any reason as to why tanks have more responsibility than any other role. Every reason I've been given applies to every other role except pulling, and I'd imagine eventually there will be situations where the tank pulling will be dangerous. Not now, but eventually. I could also be entirely wrong, but then pulling isn't really hard, but I couldn't argue against it.

[Doo]

Everyone is responsible for positioning. Everyone should know the fight before hand, the amount of hate a role gets is irrelevant. Reactive healing is bad, you should always have an understanding of how much damage is coming in, especially in a static.

They should but you can get away with it more often than not with other roles.

[RVT]

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.

Responsibility? Completely depends on the fight. Tanking Titan HM, for example, consists of spam combo and stand and look pretty. Meanwhile, DDs have a tremendous amount of moving around, dodging, continually DPSing. They are the ones responsible for burning the heart down before total wipe.

Again, DD roles like BRD have the responsibility of silencing potential wipe mechanics in endgame. Pre-50, knowing when and what mobs to sleep can prove vital. And so on...

I admire tanks and healers for taking up (what I view as) less engaging/exciting roles, but I don't value them higher than good DPS. There is a balance to these things.

[warren-ragnarok]

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.

i love the people that choose said dps role for lack of responsibility and not causing that wipe, and takes time blaming the healers or tanks for it.........they are a special kind of stupid imo

[ZeroRains]

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.

I play both warrior and paladin, and enjoy both a ton better than healer or dps. You get to deal with more mechanics, positioning, its basically a dance you do to keep the mob at bay while your team kills it, and your the director.

[Lucke]

Tanks seem to get more drama for anything that went wrong. Most people are like "screw this" and play DPS instead. It is hard to take all the hate when something goes wrong.

[Bellybell]

make DRG a tank and we will never short on ones

[jars]

why is everyone hating on dps. both new hard modes have mechanics where the dps have a lot of responsibility

[Thunderz]

I dunno basically look at the new mechanic on the EX primals which makes Tanks work harder

also solo tank Turn 5 on Twin

positioning, add holding, Stunning, etc etc

Coil T5 and EX primals if your tank doesn't know whats up you will wipe all night long