Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
Why will there be a shortage of tanks more than usual? I know I'll have three to level up, and as a PLD main, I'll likely be levelling that first (alongside casually levelling RDM and SAM).
Because a lot of tanks and healers will try out the new Jobs first even if they eventually go back to tank and healer. Just in my FC there are 2 tanks and a healer who have said they intend to level in Stormblood as a RDM or a SAM regardless of what role it plays.

It will be HW in reverse. It will balance out eventually but to start with you will see sharp shifts in queues. In HW the surge of people trying out DK lead to very short dps queues and dps even being the Adventurer in Need. Stormblood will have the opposite effect with a surge in the number of dps in queues leading to much longer dps queues, at least for probably the first month.