Quote Originally Posted by Ryios View Post
It just appears no one tanks due to lack of content and party sizes.
I think this is the real problem.

When the game was designed, the devs already know, for a fact, that in such a combat system (tank-heal-dd), there will be a lack of tanks even with WoW's 5-man parties. And they go ahead to maintain the 4-man party size.

WoW had already proven that instant queues and needed-role rewards don't do anything to address the lack of tanks. Even in the monkey-tank-all style that WoW has presented. Now look at FFXIV where there are no aggro thresholds, no fixate upon taunt, no I-pawn-everything AoE skills that you can use in your rotation without worrying about resource. And it's only reasonable to see a further drop in the population of tank players.

People won't change. If anything the solution to tank shortage lies with game design.