Why Don’t You Tank Poll

[Shurrikhan]

I do play tanks, but less so than DPS, mostly because as a tank I just feel like a DPS with some buttons siphoned away from core play and into periodic auxiliaries. With most DPS classes, the pieces seem to fit together a bit more cohesively, at least. Were there more cohesion between the mitigation and damage-dealing aspects of a tank, through both the toolkits of the tanks and (perhaps more importantly) the tuning of the content or relevant undermechanics, I'd probably play the shit out of tanks.

Also, while I still play tanks if I need to rush a Expert roulette queue, there are enough decent tanks out there that queuing as DPS can often win back its difference just through the added difference between my output and another random DPS's vs. my output as tank and another random tank's. Difference as healer is even more extreme, and would probably be the best choice if it weren't, in most cases, even more dull than tanking during an Expert roulette run, if only due to recent healer leveling.

[Nedkel]

Tanks and healers are ironically very selfish roles. Those 20 minute queues happen because the content was tuned to specifically <snip>

Thats a misconception that actually make no real sense at all, especially in this particular game where characters are being scaled to the duties.
With the current game mechanics, 3 dps and 1 healer would be impossible, due to the mobs focusing on a healer and dps'ers being a wet chicken noodles dying from the focus of few mobs.
Not to mention the balancing dungeons around 4 dps runs, it would be either too easy or too hard or they would have to redoo the design of every each class again to fit the needs for dungeons.

[Squintina]

I don't tank for 2 reasons:

1 - I have a horrible map memory, probably the worst possible. I'm 70 and still have to bring my map up every 5 minutes for most dungeons, the main exception being Halatali. (I've done it about 12 times in the past 3 weeks in command missions so EVENTUALLY it stuck, but it took many many tries, makes me wish all dungeons were available in command missions so I could learn them all that way). On the other hand my hubby, who loves to tank, can usually remember a map after doing it 1-2 times -.-

2 - I used to play mouse + keyboard (with a gaming mouse that has a gamepad on the side), but I've since converted to the controller because I Just <3 it so much. However my controller is faulty and sometimes doesn't listen to me. I can usually make up for it as a DPS or healer, but as a tank that'd be way too much. Gonna buy a new one soon, and then I'll decide if I want to try tanking with the new controller or just give up and go back to M/KB ONLY for tanking.

[Victor]

I tank only for the achievements, but I must admit that I certainly do not like it. It just doesn't feel right somehow.

[Odstarva]

Where do I vote if I feel neither bored nor stressed when I tank?

[Sylvina]

Why would anyone play dps when they could tank though? why would they suffer the hugely overdone amount of buttons required to do their job well, the queue times, the being under appreciated for the job they do?

[AphraelAmarantha]

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Its why I play healer. I suck at tanking in other games and I'm terrible at playing a dps class. WHM fits me more, I can press a heal button based on the situation, I only have two to four buttons I need to press for DPS and that's only if I don't have to heal. In addition, no super long dps queues, I can get everything I want done in the day in 30 to 60 minutes and log out. It's quite comfy actually. :P

The hard part is making sure people stay alive, particularly when everyone in the party likes eating avoidable aoes.

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

I just don't find it as fun as DPS/Healer in most content, not a tank raider myself, but I enjoy pulling wall to wall and I can rotate my cooldowns competently, I will play it from time to time.

Also I find that people tend to put more blame on the healer than the tank in my experience, at least in most casual content, I feel that people tend to blame tanks more in raids though.

[Kanitezz]

Where do I vote if I feel neither bored nor stressed when I tank?

My poll is vague, but it's helping me get the info I wanted. Everyone else is stating why they don't tank in this thread. You can do that instead.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Tanking just gives me anxiety. Which is weird, because I train new tanks all the time.
I can do it, and I can do it well, but I just don't like doing it. I'll have to eventually for the achievements but until then.