The Tank Class is ridiculously under populated...

[StrangeAeons]

I'm trying to do Turn 4 of Bahamut & it's impossible to find a group. I main as a Warrior iLV90 but I'm currently playing my iLV78 White Mage trying to get Allagan Chest for it & Party Finder or Duty Finder, it's taking WAAYYY too long to find a Tank.

This is why I play Tank & I would play Tank to get my White Mage drops but obviously if a Healer NEEDS I'm SOL. So yeahh. What can SE do to fix the lack of Tanks? I feel like I'm an endangered species here.

The ratio of DPS & Healer to Tank is staggering. I'm in Adamantoise NA by the way.

[Myrhn]

Join greed parties or make your own PF party with whm body locked to you or greed one item.

[Demus]

There are plenty of tanks, just run a lap around Rev. Toll to see. Problem is, a lot of them don't want to deal with the headache of Duty/Party Finder if they already have good statics or FCs for endgame content.

[abzoluut]

Part of an MMO skill is to mingle with a group of people you can do stuff with. Make a linkshell, inv people you think are capable of farming Coil 1-5. Before you know it, you'll have a solid group who'll farm stuff in every patch that comes out.

I wonder why people always assume that developers need to make things happen all the time.

[ks3v3n]

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first of all, t4 was never ever a tank boss at all. early on we had to get through that part of coil. with 2.2 some freshmates needed a loot here and then, helped out friends or fc, did it for speed farm 200 full parties (acm inc). y in the world a new tank would do t4 now? y hand over your gaming experience to som1 else, who doesnt know is job (either healer or dps or 2nd tank). who the fak cares about the loot you might get at t4?

srlsy, before you start another QQ thread about the lack of tanks for t4 again. sit down, take a deep breath and think about it again. thanks to SE for the loottables, but actually no tank needs t4. no1.

[Pooky_Pasha]

What can SE do to fix the lack of Tanks?

Considering that everybody has to the potential to be a tank (actual skill level not included), isn't more of the players' responsibility to "fix" the lack of tanks? I would never run DF or PF as a tank given past experiences (such as the time the melee dps in Garuda Ex yelled at me for not stunning Whicked Wheel). What I do is get some people for my FC that can clear the content I want to do, and run the crap out of it until we hopefully get all we want out of it. Or I will wait until my Coil static meets and try to talk them into it for a while.

The ratio of DPS & Healer to Tank is staggering.

Again, a player base issue, especially in a game were we can literally be any job we want with the press of a button.

[NintenPyjak64]

Lack of tanks, yet ironically the best spenders on food

[Inosaska]

There are plenty of tanks, just run a lap around Rev. Toll to see. Problem is, a lot of them don't want to deal with the headache of Duty/Party Finder if they already have good statics or FCs for endgame content.

You got that right left a party because a summoner in the DF party didn't comprehend switch summons(He was using Titan) or I leave and I just left because I'm not going to deal with bouncing enemies all over the place. Some people just don't understand that the tanking job has lots of stress associated with it and we really don't need the extra added crap from players that can't play the game properly or are trolling just to piss off the tank.

[Grey_D94]

Personally, I haven't exactly reached endgame content, yet. But my main class, and the one I'd say I'm best at, is the Paladin. A lot of these threads talk about how the Tank classes get so much crap aimed at them when the DPS or Healer messes up and they want to blame someone else. Is this really what I've got to look forward to?

If so, then it's just no wonder why people don't want to bother with being the Tank. We take the punishment, yes, but from our enemies. When the allies we're protecting are the ones who're taking it out on us, and if they really are so inclined to do so, then what's the point of staying one?

[lxSch]

What can SE do to fix the lack of Tanks? I feel like I'm an endangered species here.

Make people stop harassing and vote kicking new tanks. Back in march while playing tanks i have been asked to taunt many times - people have a huge misunderstanding what tank role in ffxiv is. I usually say "tanks have no taunt" and then people start to laugh and troll - they do not even consider a tank not having a taunt to be possible.
"You are a bad tank - you no taunt!"