How to make tanking more rewarding?

[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.

[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.

[mosaicex]

same should be said about lazy good for nothing dps, i play all roles, and mnk is by far my favorite and drg close behind that. i tried to give a dps advice when i was in a dungeon on his drg, and after the next fight, vote kick initiated. luckily, immediately after that dps was vote kicked instead, but point is, cant expect tanks to follow this idea if dps dont do it either

Yes, the same could be said for every bad players, but like I said earlier, DPS players are expendable. Tanks (and to certain extent, healers) are not, most of the time anyway. If bad DPS players are giving you too much trouble you can just votekick them and get another one replaced in like 1 minute max.

[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.