Solution to Problem of no Tanks for In-Progress Parties

[Tolmos]

At the lower levels, it can be an hour or more waiting for a tank to come if you lose your tank during a dungeon raid. Often, you never get a tank. I think this problem happens because it's easier to get gear from a dungeon raid as a tank than as any other job because tanks get no competition. In every dungeon raid, either the mages or the dps have to compete for gear. The tank never has to compete. I've done enough Brayflox runs, for instance, to know that each possible piece, whether mage, tank, or dps, loads at around the same frequency. That is the problem and the reason why tanks are harder to find. A mage might have to repeat the run a dozen times to get his or her gear because he or she had to compete for that gear, let alone because it didn't load on that run. Tanks, however, get their pieces when they load.

So the solution is simple: lower the load percentage for tank gear. Make it something like 40% for mage, 40% for dps, 20% for tank.

lmao this post deserves to be screenshot and put on imgur.

"The solution to not having enough tanks in the game is to reduce the reward for being a tank in the game. THAT will produce more tanks! =D =D =D =D

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Right guys?

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Guys?"

[Blazn]

Roll a tank and quit QQing?

[Myrdyn_Wyldt]

Roll a tank and quit QQing?

Or make friends with tanks.

I almost never join DF because I have an active FC, but even with the few times I have gone into DF as a tank, I still abandoned a duty once as tank because of a lancer who was being stupid after being asked not to. I didn't rage quit the duty, but I got better things to do with my time. I spent the 15 minute timeout enjoying some crafting, then queued with full FC group and had a smooth, enjoyable run.

Edit to say: I would never join an in progress DF as a tank - chances are you would be taking on a problem group that some one else would rather spend 15 minutes watching gold spammer shouts in Ul'dah than continue with. The solution to getting a tank in an in-progress group is "l2p" and on those rare occasions when there is a technical problem and the tank gets booted, suck it up and re-queue.