How to make tanking more rewarding?

[RayneBoemir]

While your suggestion would help, I don't think that's the real issue. As a tank you are viewed as the leader of the group, you are the one who assigns who is doing a specific task in the group. In regular dungeons you always have to be on the move the dungeon can't progress without you moving constantly forward, and it requires constant moving in/out of aoe and back in while also overviewing other things. It's kind of stressful.

[coldreactive]

I think the real issue is that some tank-able people are just too nervous now, because of all these healers and DPS who want to "Speed Run." I don't, and I make it clear that when I tank, at the start, I won't do a speed run. Ever. People who think tanks are meant to do damage, haven't played many MMORPGs.

Also, if you want to put healers through tests as a tank, I suggest playing a lalafell tank. A Good healer won't medica spam because they can't "Click" you through a monster.

[Nicobo]

...A Good healer won't medica spam because they can't "Click" you through a monster.

Not undersatnd why media spam (aoe) needs to target on someone... ^^;

[Vorpal_Spork]

A Good healer won't medica spam because they can't "Click" you through a monster.

A good healer won't be trying to click your avatar in the first place.

[coldreactive]

A good healer won't be trying to click your avatar in the first place.

You are absolutely right.

[Martin_Arcainess]

If your playing tank for big numbers or think you don't like tank because of the numbers it produces then your thinking about tank in the wrong light and it's not for you. But it's not the Job's fault.

It's not about the numbers but more about the aggro we keep heck I've been in aggro keeping wars with other Tanks and I find it fun that we fight over it sometimes or I'm the one that has the aggro on the hunt monster over all the other tanks out there. Yes numbers will play into keeping aggro but there isn't a DPS alive today that can take aggro off me *thinking of being of equal item level of course" Sure it's nice to deal those big numbers but it's even nicer when I do a job well done and it feels more rewarding doing a job well done for a role that isn't the easy to play. Well to me it is it's just that people need to learn about aggro rather then just pumping out numbers and thinking that there all there is to it.

[Janhyua]

Love tanking but if I am to do anything else for anyone or routte I just use warrior and go in dungeon to overpower and half Fk everything cause I give zero shit I just overpower and afk lol

[Barboron]

It tells you in the skill description how much you mitigate. Having it appear in flying text is just going to be annoying as it produces, well...more text that is necessary as opposed to the numbers.

As for tanks' DPS, if a tank is more focused on DPSing then tanking, perhaps they shouldn't be a tank anyway. I enjoy playing tank because I know I gain lots of control on a fight. Plus I pretty much have people by the balls because they need me.

[Its_Elodie]

Showing how much damage a tank does or how much they mitigate isn't going to get people to want to start tanking dungeons. I don't main a tanking class, but I do side a WAR. This community in general has gotten so bad I don't tank unless it's for a friend or fc member or I'm short on time and need an instant queue for something. Tanks have the worst job in this game. So many other classes are so demanding they don't care about anyone but themselves anymore. Everything has to be a speed run nowadays, there's no time for newbies to get their full clears or have fights explained to them, and a lot of dps (especially when running low level instances) have the patience of a 2 year old, running off and pulling mobs on their own if they have to wait more than two seconds for a pull. I've decided I'm not going to deal with it anymore. Unless the community changes it's attitude towards tanking things will stay the same. A tankless job couldn't be more right.

[bideogames]

until they make tanking something other than a pseudo dps competition with the rest of your party no one is going to want to do it.