Why Don’t You Tank Poll

[Kanitezz]

Take the poll please.

http://www.strawpoll.me/14694321

I know everyone that plays the game won't do the poll, but I was bored, and this came to mind. Anyway.

These are the two main complaints I've seen when it comes to people not wanting to tank.
Is tanking too boring, or too stressful?
Since I didn't think of more complex responses...
If your answer is softer like “It just doesn’t interest me” just say too boring.
If your answer is something like "When other people play "whatever role" they don't know what they're doing" let that fall under too stressful since you're still worrying about something.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

[Lazaruz]

Been warming up to it lately, but I rest firmly in the camp of "too stressful"
Constantly scared that I'm not pulling "enough". Or too much, or not holding mobs as well as I should, and so on, and so on, which stresses me out.

[Selova]

Been warming up to it lately, but I rest firmly in the camp of "too stressful"
Constantly scared that I'm not pulling "enough". Or too much, or not holding mobs as well as I should, and so on, and so on, which stresses me out.

The fear and stress that people feel from tanking is alleviated through practice. As someone that avoided tanking for over 10 years in WoW due to these very reasons, I decided to leave my comfort zone when i started playing FFXIV 2 years ago and after a bit of practice, reading tanking guides and familiarizing myself with mechanics It honestly was rather easy and fun.

I think the issue is that people don't want to have to leave their comfort zone or what they are used to and obviously don't want to deal with stress from all the tank horror stories of everyone blaming them in groups for every single mistake and honestly I can't blame them.

Then on top of all this you add to the fact that tanks for a lot of people just aren't engaging to play, I don't personally agree since I love playing my Warrior but I can understand. There is also the fact that tanks are responsible for setting the pace for the group, making decisions on whether or not your healer can handle doing bigger pulls vs smaller pulls, having to make snap decisions on what mitigations you need to pop if you have a new healer ect.


The cons for a lot of people outweight the pros and they just aren't comfortable with more responsibility than they are used to. Playing tanks in MMO's has always been the least popular role and regardless of how fun they make them to play, the added responsibility of playing that role just isn't appealing to people no matter how you slice it. Cheers.

[AxlStream]

There's no option because everyone blames the tank for their own shortcomings?

[Arrius]

There's no option because everyone blames the tank for their own shortcomings?

The 'Because people would notice faster that I am bad at this.' option.

[imjustahealer]

There's no option because everyone blames the tank for their own shortcomings?

not always.
i was in an instance the other day & the tank pulled loads & couldnt control his pull. we ended up wiping & then he did the same thing again on the next try. again, we wiped. he left & the sheep dps followed him not realising he was crap.
i stayed, had a new tank & dps in no time & this time the tank pulled those very same amount of mobs, we cleared those with no deaths & then we cleared the whole place without a single death.
some tanks are just not meant to play that class.

[VanilleFang]

you obviously havnt healed

Yeah. I don't generally see people blaming the tank. If people die that means they weren't healed, right?

[imjustahealer]

Yeah. I don't generally see people blaming the tank. If people die that means they weren't healed, right?

i edited the post for that very reason.

[Raldo]

Too boring. Keeping hate is child's play. Then you find yourself pushing DPS since keeping hate is easy, and then you ask yourself... Why not just play a DPS class? DPS classes are more interesting.

I don't mind tanking in raid content, but faceroll content it's just... ugh.

FYI OP, you can turn your URL into a clickable link by wrapping it in URL tags like this:

[URL]http://www.strawpoll.me/14694321[/URL]

[Kanitezz]

FYI OP, you can turn your URL into a clickable link by wrapping it in URL tags like this:

[URL]http://www.strawpoll.me/14694321[/URL]

Thanks. I created the post on my phone at first. But I'll try that just in case.