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

[AlrikRouge]

To the OP - good read. I myself have never played an MMO before (I skipped 11, and tried one other one for about a week or two and didn't like it), but started this one because it is in the Final Fantasy genre. I appreciate the suggestions made. I personally use PLD as my main, and I have a somewhat unique feeling because I can tank pretty good, and tanks are always in high demand (for the most part; look at near-instant que-up in DF as an example).

In general, to the others, the title of this thread and the general purpose of making the thread was to clearly state that making a specific mount for tanks, will not be an incentive for more players to have a tank as their main character.

Regardless of the thought process, information, data or knowledge given in the post, the basis of the thread and post stay the same - it is a personal suggestion derived from personal experience to possibly change things within the game to try and make being a tank more interesting and more fun in general, and therefore have a chance, no matter how remote, to entice more players into tanking as a main character.

There are already tons of threads that have gone from one subject matter into [learn how to play a tank; WAR is better than PLD or PLD is better than WAR or PLD and WAR are same or or or].

So jumping back on to topic of this thread (unless, OP, I am clearly misunderstanding why you even took the time and effort to making the point), I agree that something could be changed for the tank role in order to make it more enticing, and "have a specific mount" won't really cut it. Maybe it will make people level a tank, but I don't see it making people want to play a tank.