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

[Royze]

The Graph is just data. If SE is using that data alone to determine job popularity then the (sad) state of the game makes so much more sense now.

That Data should be considered, at best, as a third indicator for job popularity.

As many have recent said in this thread, having a (tank)job lvled does not mean it is being played.

I'm not even going to get into the fact that there are more than twice as many dps as there are tanks. The implications of such should be (at least I hope) well within SE's means of grasping.

What they, and no one, seems to be considering is the fact that many Tanks, be they WAR or PLD, play other jobs. That only reduces the true amount of available tanks available further.

Now, tanks might be playing other jobs because they desire a temporary change and want to mix things up a bit, or they might be playing other jobs because they are fed up of tanking - be it because it is so mundane and repetitive, or because it is too stressful for some to have to deal with the community's blunt feedback about their performance. Be it valid or invalid, many people just do not want to be in the spotlight amongst strangers and subject themselves to abuse. They're crazy. Who doesn't love being abused by total strangers and being the only one other than the healers who is accountable for every last damn mistake they make?

Never mind all that, a mount sounds like the perfect solution.

[UBERHAXED]

I'm not even going to get into the fact that there are more than twice as many dps as there are tanks. The implications of such should be (at least I hope) well within SE's means of grasping.

This might have something to do with: 9 available to play: 5 DPS, 2 Tanks, 2 Healers... If every person in the population choose jobs so every job has the same number, than there will still be more DPS than healers and tanks (combined...)

[Grizzlebeard]

I'm not even going to get into the fact that there are more than twice as many dps as there are tanks. The implications of such should be (at least I hope) well within SE's means of grasping.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here but a mix of roughly 25% Tank / 25% Healer / 50% DD shouldn't be an issue with a 1 tank / 1 healer / 2 DD party combination.

Granted, I highly doubt those figures as we all know there's a tanking shortage. It could just be that the tanks are sitting in bars drinking away the memory of their last random DF experience.

[therpgfanatic]

Maybe I'm missing something obvious here but a mix of roughly 25% Tank / 25% Healer / 50% DD shouldn't be an issue with a 1 tank / 1 healer / 2 DD party combination.

Granted, I highly doubt those figures as we all know there's a tanking shortage. It could just be that the tanks are sitting in bars drinking away the memory of their last random DF experience.

You need to read the other posts. That chart was made up by players a long time ago, and it doesn't reflect what people actually play as.