How to make tanks more fun to play (devs please read)

[saden]

I didn't read the original post, but I will when I have the time and post more thoughtfully on the subject. The only thing I will say right now is that I have no desire to level a tank in this game at all. I might get PLD and WAR to 50 just so I can have every class/job at 50 (for new job releases, etc), but I probably wont be gearing them up at all.

That being said I always say that I'll probably be a tank in this game if they just release more tank jobs. Almost every MMO I have played I chose tank because I just enjoyed it. When I played EQ2 (started about 2 years ago) I decided to go with a DPS for the heck of it and that carried over to FFXIV as I mainly play a BLM. I havent been playing very long (about 2 months), but I've completed about 70% of the "endgame" content and still have no desire to go tank. In fact, I've had tanks tell me it's just boring. Usually, the release of new classes in a game breathes new life into the players and the developers and those new classes (or jobs in this case) tend to be interesting.

If Ninja ends up being a tank-job then I'm going Ninja. I just hope they release at least 2-3 jobs at once. Preferably 1 tank, 1 dps/support, 1 heal/support (read: OR support either way like a BRD is or a full support healer). That way the game isn't cluttered with a majority leveling that 1 single job that they release and gearing that job up. I could just imagine the queue times even if you are playing a tank/healer.


Something about this game makes tanks so boring. I can't quite put my finger on it, but every other MMO I've played (EQ, EQ2, DaoC, WoW, Lineage, CoH, and more) the tank or tank-types were always interesting and fun. Well...okay they weren't much fun in WoW, but that's WoW...