Lack of tanks in the game

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Well I main as both tanks, don't seem to have a problem with doing it. Admittedly, Paladin does get boring at times (1-2-3 combo gets old), and it would be nice to see some complexity to the job like Warrior. As Warrior, it's nice to know that I have about 3 main combos to use and usually 2 rotations to variate with. Sometimes 3 depending on how I feel like attacking.

As far as holding hate, the only time I've ever had that problem was in Titan HM, pre-relic. I guess the Moogle axe wasn't enough to hold hate over an i90 Bard. Yeah, people bitched at me for MT, but the Paladin running with us wasn't MTing, so I don't see how that ended up being my problem. If people want a certain class to MT, then they should announce as such before fights like that. Saves me a lot of time and the party a lot of trouble.

And yes, I dusted their dicks in the dirt after all the fuss. No sense in hanging around a bunch of bitching people if they're not going to do something to correct the "problem."

[JonBigwood]

I don't actually find the state of tanks to be in any way broken or their gameplay hard to be honest.
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I believe the main issue (as many others in this thread have already mentioned) lies with the antisocial mentality of the majority of DPS players out there. Damage Dealers are all about instant gratification these days unfortunately and all seem to come along expecting an easy ride.

I agree with the first statement, it's not how the game is made.

About the second, I think there is not a majority of antisocial people, and not necessarily DPS. Most people is nice. There is a small minority of rude people (of any job), usually they are also not good players and easily blame others.

Tanks mistakes are easily seen. A good or bad tank (or one who does not know the place and is hesitating all the time) affects the party more than other roles (usually). When you play other jobs you see that. In a place I know well, I prefer to tank, I don't risk meeting a bad tank. Tanks are blamed also sometimes when the fault is not theirs or not only theirs.

A problem I see is people who quit too easily when things don't go well, be it because the tank is new/bad or not. They don't blame anyone nor say anything rude, just leave at the first or second difficulty.

[iWaRTuRTLe]

Yeah im not sure why they got rid of enmity materias from 1.0. Those were nice for tanks...