A Tankless Job

[Aloreal]

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Actually as i see it a tank is the one that needs to either know all the fights beforehand, at least an idea of an idea by video or be really able to pick it up fast as they go.

the main point why people do not pick up a tank is the responsibility behind it, not the complexity of it. As soon as you pick it up you are given a position to pick up everything and make it work.

Look at raid guilds even in different games. the leader is usually a tank, charismatic and a good leader either by natural or by learning it as he went.

that and the fact that dps have better looking attacks and draws the vain people to it most of the times.

granted that in ff most of the fights are mechanics based and once someone learns the main way to do it its usually a breeze and that takes part of the responsibility off the tank

[JonBigwood]

Can someone please explain to me why if we need an influx of tanks across the board, why is this achievement limited to so little of the games content?

The fact that only EX Primals and Coil count for the tank mount means that the developers wanted to incentivate with the mount tanks to do that content (and not other.) In other content you have the adventurer in need incentive given by roulettes. I suppose tanks are more scarce in EX Primals and Coil, end game players may have several jobs, some players comment that they only tank when they go with their friends, and play other jobs with PUGs.

[ks3v3n]

I suppose tanks are more scarce in EX Primals and Coil, end game players may have several jobs, some players comment that they only tank when they go with their friends, and play other jobs with PUGs.

basicly this. most good tanks i know (and there aren't a lot of them ), dont even dare to run pugs/pickups/dfs or what ever.

i myself am a tank4life, i love to challenge myself with pve/pvp content. and when the content is so freakin easy like at this game, where you get bored very fast as an above average tank, its fun to "accept the challenge" running with random ppl. jumpin into a df or pickup group, where you dont know the healer/dps, still clearing a raid/instance with newbies or undergeared ppl, struggling healers, dps gone wild tryin to be paper tank railgunning everything and still you tank the shit out of the mobs ... thats just sooo much fun. i do even jump into the roulettes after my daily one, 'cause i know the freakin long queue times for dps, just to help out some others.

i think its a spirit, you have to be a born tank to enjoy tankin at every aspect like we do and tankin isnt just about holding aggro. tankin is a lot more:
- preparation
- situation awarness
- protecting your group
- calming influence
- knowledge of all classes, when they do what and how
- pain resistance
- the mindset to keep improving yourself and your group, with every next hour you play a game

i'm playin the tankclass (and all classes, too. since i have to ^^ see above) for about 12 years now, i'll keep playin them as long as they'll be present at mmo's and i enjoy it =)