The issue came up in a troll thread that was locked, but the problem is real and deserves to be talked about in a troll-free place:
It's not rare for newer players to not know what their role in a party is. And I don't mean tanks dealing dmg or not. I mean that many new players don't even know that their class is a tank class, and who can blame them when the game itsself is missleading about it? SE, why don't you make it more obvious in the character creation which class is which role in group content later?

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If they do that, then we might as well make a "...For Dummies" book just for this game. All the "Are you sure you wanna X" windows that pop up for everything is bloody annoying.
Yeah, they are, but making obvious which role the class is doesn't need an extra window, you know? When you pick a class, there already is something like a small profile about the class with information like which starting city it has, which weapons it uses and stuff like that. They could just add the role information there too, since most people are too lazy to read the whole text on the class which gives slight indicators to it's role most of the time.
Or, you know, they could at least not lie about the class IN that introductory text...
Because especially for GLA, they don't make it seem like a tank at all. They even literally say stuff like "If needed, they don't use a shield at all and just focus on swords and attacking." I'm still waiting for a skill that drops PLDs shield. And no, Sword Oath keeps the shield on
And we still wonder why so many clueless GLAs turn up who are shocked to find out they are gonna be a turtle and not a mantis? MAR text too only talks about how they are SOOO awesome at dealing CRAZY AMOUNTS of dmg and never even hints on anything about tanking in the description.