Over the last decade of MMOs I have found only one thing they all have in common. Tank and Healer shortages. So it is normal but other games over time have been making things better.

I normally love tanking, I have played tanks in every MMO i have played... Ninja and Paladin in FFXI... Druid, Death Knight, Warrior, Monk and Paladin in WoW. Everything from exp parties and dungeons to raids. (few other mmos as well but not going to list everything).

So what is wrong? Gladiator/Pld is boring and not very good at multi-target tanking which is what most of the game is until endgame and even then there is some need for it. On top of this none of the tanks really feel like tanks at lower levels. We do terrible damage, can't really do much to keep ourselves safe and if any DPS wants to they can (and often do) pull things off the tank.

So why should I or anyone play a class that is boring, low damage, high stress , and only slightly tougher than other classes?