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

[Duelle]

You are mistaken... DRG do have a stun (with the same cooldown as a warrior) and MNK has 2 stuns and a silence. It's the people you play with (and the tendency to only use ranged) which makes the tank do interrupts. Don't blame the game mechanics. In fact, the sole fact that you didn't know this invalidates your entire argument.

Oh, I know about Leg Sweep, Arm of the Destroyer and Shoulder Tackle. Shield Bash's ease of use has made those basically obsolete for the majority of the playerbase because it's easier to tell the PLD with a stun that has no cooldown and an off-GCD silence to do that instead of having the DPS do it. So yes, the mechanics are very much to blame.

Let's also consider that real interrupts are generally attacks that do no damage at all and simply cancel spellcasting. My guess is that they wanted to limit interrupt useage by tying them to abilities with effects that have diminishing returns (stuns, pacification), but we may have been just as well off if not better by giving DPS interrupts with 10-second cooldowns.

The tendency to use only ranged came about because of lacking mechanics and raid design, as raid dungeon design should encourage balanced comps instead of all melee or all ranged.