How to make tanking more rewarding?

[CYoung187]

I used to love tanking. PLD was my main when I started and I loved it. Then it just started to become babysitting others whining about every little thing. That got old quick, so I switched to dps and it is just so much more relaxing, I don't play a video game to deal with stress or people pouting because something isn't done their way, I get enough of that at work.

[Adrian74]

Tank is the least preferred role to play in the game. It is apparent from all those \\'in demand\\' messages on the roulettes.

I gave it a thought and after playing WAR for a while I think I figured out why.

Tanking isn\\'t as enjoyable as dps because it produces small numbers.

We deal and take less damage. Sure the whole point of tanking is to take less damage but the point is, we don\\'t know how much

Here is my suggestion: show \\'% damage mitigated\\' on flying displays like Parry currently does. So if I had Inner Beast active, a mountain buster would say \\'1610 (20% mitigated)\\', as opposed to just \\'1610\\'.

What do you think? What other non-encounter-specific improvement would you make?


TL;DR- show % damage mitigated by cooldowns on tank\\'s damage taken, just like Parry.

For one moment I thought you were about to suggest a whole reform of the tanking jobs adding some system where we really need to do certain actions or combos to enhance our defense or slow enemies, or reduce enemies attacks, and all that having to deal with aggro... Yes, I mean, uhm... Something the opposite to PLD, perhaps... (Easy one combo and just burn Coldowns... really?)

At least warrior has to play with stacks.... I'll just take this part of your phrase and hope DRK to be awesome: ["We deal and take less damage. Sure the whole point of tanking is to take less damage but the point is, we don't know how."]

[XgungraveX]

tanking will make you bitter about other players,i tanked since 2002 on alot of mmos, players will just blame you from everything like dying to a mob that they pulled or focusing on the wrong mob,standing in front of a boss even when it has a cleave, poping all burst cds before the tank has a chance to get aggro in a fight,etc. i have made some tanking mistakes and i will say my bad and will do better. but the constent crap you get from players over the couple years i just giving a **** what they think and continue to tank i know how, look up fights and position the boss etc. because at the end of the day im the tank and lead you go where i go end of story. im also more like to jump in front of a healer to shield them than dps... cant live in my healer bites the dust

[Thistledown]

Oh wow this thread really blew up. Thank you everyone for participating in a civilised manner and putting forward a lot of different opinions.

It is lovely to see people with actual concern over tanking as a whole, not just focussing over 'add moar tanks' or 'dps queue too long' circlejerk.

It makes me sorta proud to have chosen WAR as my secondary.

[KaedrianLiang]

Tank is the least preferred role to play in the game. /snip

Tanks control the tempo of the battle.

Majority of players don't feel up to the pressure of being that person that controls the tempo of a dungeon or encounter. When in reality tank is the easiest role to play once you can get past that pressure.

edit: they can make tank more rewarding by multiplying the roulette reward for adventurer in need by x10.

[2spooky]

The instaqueues are nice, especially when I play with my WHM friend.