How to get people to tank!

[Risvertasashi]

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Having been in both roles... I think what they are referring to is that frustration when you're a tank and have a 'bad' healer (like one that dies constantly to mechanics). It can leave you feeling helpless much more often than having a bad tank as a healer does, since a good healer can usually heal through a bad tank.

Not always, though. Raid level tankbusters, and I do mean those ones that will oneshot tanks with no CDs... obviously there's a point where the healer can't do enough even with virus/shields/etc on their own. But that's much rarer; dead healers leading to a party wipe can happen even in much easier/more casual content. All that said, yeah, I think tanks are high impact as is. In fact that's probably partly why it's so intimidating; a tanks mistakes, even small ones, are very visible.

My personal thoughts echo those on the first page; I think it's more impatience among the community and the general intimidation of taking on lead role responsibility that makes a lot of people shy away.

There is no real magic bullet; you just have to try to make some part of it more appealing to try to overcome the stigmas.