the need for 3rd tank class

[Lafiele]

The short answer is, there is nothing that can be done to the classes which will make tanks played more.

Things like adding a third class, making tanks more "fun" to play etc etc, these will do nothing to help because bottom line, people don't play tanks not because it's boring (because let's face it, every other class is just as boring if you think tanks are boring), the real answer is the DPS. People like to see the big hits, people don't want to worry about the party as a whole, people want to have the easy job and feel good.

At this stage, the only real ways to improve the tank shortage (this is a community opinion, imo, tanks are not in shortage, yes they get faster queue times because not as many people play tanks but the queue times also aren't ridiculous for me in my opinon when queuing as a DPS) is to change the party composition. So 4 mans will still be the same but the 8 mans will have to be redesigned for solo tanking. This kind of change is of course, extremely unlikely since basically every end game content at the moment is designed and scaled for 2 tanks 2 healers and 4 dps.

Therefore, no matter how many tank classes they pump out, it's not going to improve the people who play your harder roles in general. The people who play tank will keep playing the tanks and the people who play DPS are hoping for other DPS or healers to switch to tanks (not thinking that all the DPS are under the same mindset so nothing changes). The most common excuse is, oh the tanks class is so boring, if they were more fun i would play it but that's a load of bollocks since tanking is tanking. Even if you are saying the tanking class right now is boring for you because it is too easy for you so you don't want to play it or that they don't do enough damage. Because if they don't do enough damage that's because that's not their role, and if they're too easy for you, then I don't see how being a DPS is any harder. The real reason 99 % of the time is, you just don't want to play that role either because you're no good or you just like doing DPS more.\

Having said this, I don't oppose class variety but adding a new class isn't going to solve any shortage issues, at least not in end game.