Dark Knights will they help add more people in tank queues?

[Aaptorian]

With the announcement of DRK some people are hoping we'll see some fresh faces in players who main tank; but will it really? basically I don't think it will, sure we might get a few more but mostly as a "if you need one" class like many others who have lvled tanks but tend to play dps or healer. I think we will simply have tanks who are pld and war now become drk.

[Whiteroom]

Of course it wont by any noticeable amount. For a short time there will be a lot around, but, by the time they hit 50, most will see the abuse tanks get, and go back to the carefree dps life. The only way the number of tanks would stick around is if it was so OP, that it made everything easy mode. You also have to take into account that its not just a tank class that we are getting, its also a dps and healer class. So, tanks will level DRK while the healers and dps level theirs for cross class.

[Lorielle]

It's just going to be a new job syndrome. If people didn't like tanking before, they're not really going to enjoy it now. More than likely people will just be leveling the job just cause it's there. This is excluding people that actually do want to tank, dps, heal, etc.

[Jandor]

For every DPS who starts leveling Dark Knight there will be a tank changing to DPS to level Machinist.

Like me.

[Alacran]

I will admit, I am one of those people. I leveled my GLD and MRD in 1.0, much of the systems were very different at that time. It was simply easier to level solo through leves then. As fixes came and things changed, the ability to survive as well as use certain cross skill actions began to define the classes that would eventually transition into the jobs we have today. At that time I had focused primarily of have a character that could take hits, have decent strength, and could cast a few spells. Even then i wanted DRK, but was content to wait until it happened, even then i expected it to be a dps as it was in FFXI. I was you see very lucky in that i have great friends that let me play my WAR as a dps through 1.0 until the advent of limit breaks we just continued our merry little four man content.

When 2.0 hit and everything was so much more defined i picked up DRG as i had always been the physical dps of our group, and because i felt perhaps some LNC skills would cross over to DRK should it ever be introduced. Now through all this i understand it simply looks like a fools confession of being to scared to tank, and that is 100% accurate. Many things i am but a liar is not one of them. I am not a great player, my net is unfortunately uncooperative at times (living in a rural area levees very few options for isp... in my case only one.) and my work schedule is a four on four off rotating day and nights set up.

I have heard the phrase maybe gaming isn't for you (and that is one of the few things that can really set me off.), my only reply to this is i have been a fan of the series for nearly twenty years, and have played this game since the beginning, i have waited for this job for some time and i really hope to get the hang of it while it's still new, but i understand that fundamentally i hate to waste peoples time, i dislike the idea that i have to be a veteran of a dungeon/ encounter when it's hours old. I saw it with titan HM, I saw it most recently with SoF, while I know Im going to hang around for the long haul part of me still wonders if the apprehension will ease up, the expectations will be more feasible. I know it's asking alot. I realize this wasn't exactly what was asked, just wanted to present what some people on the other side maybe thinking.

[SpookyGhost]

Everyone that sticks with DRK will have already been a tank. We may get a few new guys, but not many, especially not enough to fix queues.

[VargasVermillion]

Doesn't matter what classes they will add tanking/healing will never become popular enough that queues are even for all.
DPS roles are just more popular and always will be, only way tanks would ever become as popular is if they did equal damage to DPS which would never happen because it would be absurdly overpowered to the point DPS would be obsolete.

long dps qeues are here to stay, can only get used to them.

[Trespar]

Yeah, I don't think much will change. The cool-factor of the DRK will possibly convert some people. But as Jandor said, some tanks might also want to move to the other classes.

The only thing they can do is make the 1 tank, 2 healer, 5 dps 8-man party the standard(doing that in 24-man raids did improve queues for dps). But that won't help the 4-man queues. Unless they turn them into 5-man queues, so there are 3 dps per party instead of 2. Which I doubt is going to happen.

[Kaztiel]

Kinda. There'll be MORE tanks, but not necessarily more GOOD tanks. You'll get a flood of new drk that may wanna tank, but after some abuse, they'll go back to dpsing. (Like whiteroom said earlier)
As a middling tank myself, I'm looking forward to how quick my df will pop with the 'join party in progress' clicked- there's gonna be a lotta rage quittin, I think

[myahele]

As other's have said, there'll certainly be an influx of people leveling DRK. But it'll slowly taper back to normal once they find out how tanking is really like.

Leveling from 1-50 is quite enjoyable, but endgame is something else