How to make tanking more rewarding?

[Keisatsu]

Mained tank since I played in 2.0, I personally love it

My thoughts on tanking though: People can either love it or hate it, rarely inbetween

..As for Drk, my views on that (Though a little off topic I know): People will play it at first just to see how it is, like everything new, people get hyped over it, but then the DPS will remember that tanks do low numbers, and will have to be relied on, thus turning them off from Drk and never touching it again..In short: The people who already tank and love it will love Drk, the people who don't will play it for a little then drop it because it's a tank, and people hate tanks :C

[Justsomeguy]

The people who already tank and love it will love Drk, the people who don't will play it for a little then drop it because it's a tank, and people hate tanks :C

This, I agree with.

A large group of people seem to think Drk is going to be the Elixir that fixes Queue times and all that. Really, people will play it and in the end, it may convert a few (or snag some new players that like it) but everyone else will go back to their respective jobs, or tanks will main it etc etc.

This issue is something that is nigh impossible for SE to "fix". This issue goes down to the core of mmorpgs that use the holy trinity. Which is probably why you see more games not using it or branching away from it.

[Vorpal_Spork]

This issue goes down to the core of mmorpgs that use the holy trinity. Which is probably why you see more games not using it or branching away from it.

The only MMOs i've seen that tried not to have the trinity were horrible. There was no teamwork required and none was possible anyway. It felt like just a bunch of people KSing my solo kill rather than a group fight. It also involved a whole lot of dying and respawning because there weren't any healers. If someone held a gun to my head and tried to force me to play Guild Wars 2 I'd pay really good money not to.

[Ilenya]

The only MMOs i've seen that tried not to have the trinity were horrible. There was no teamwork required and none was possible anyway. It felt like just a bunch of people KSing my solo kill rather than a group fight. It also involved a whole lot of dying and respawning because there weren't any healers. If someone held a gun to my head and tried to force me to play Guild Wars 2 I'd pay really good money not to.

City of Heroes said hi.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Everybody will level up DRK up to level 60, then go back to their original jobs, most likely. They just don't like the role. The available info is contradictory at the same time because THIS shows that PLD/GLD is the most played class...? Yet there's a tank shortage? I wouldn't give my personal experience as a tank here because it's just me liking the role, but it's hard for me to determine what's the reason people don't play it. The only guys I've ever asked told me because they feel it's boring.

[Keisatsu]

The available info is contradictory at the same time because THIS shows that PLD/GLD is the most played class...? Yet there's a tank shortage?

That shows the total number of Pld / Gld, I'd mainly just look at who's lv 50 on that and compare it to the rest.

[Tyrn]

How to make tanking more rewarding?

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[juniglee]

Free gold plan eternal bond with Y'shtola.

Swap that for Nanamo and I'll take it (or even Tataru)!

[Arkine]

I just want them to fix Shield Swipe, and give me some spells to use. That'd be super rewarding for me.

[Marxam]

Tanking is fun. Idk what you guys are talking about. I would fix the rewards however the gil rewards is so weak that I stopped running dungeons after cap which is usually by Thursday. I know SE is keeping data on which classes/jobs we play more often so why not reward those who play tanks more often, like 75% of the time, with lots of exclusive vanity and maybe double the commendations given for just playing a tank. I would love to reach that 3000 commendation achievement but I'm not a keener and won't force people to commend me.

Also there's no way to differentiate between people who love tanking and choose it since day to those who only do it for the mounts/tome cap/commendations.

...or se can put the tank chest as a drop in the first turn in a raid like in t1.