For the love of swtor - fix lack of TANKS

People who are forced to because Bioware is stupid and put the best in slot tanking relics as the War Hero ones. I almost unsubscribed over how painful that was to get my Jug two of those. Yeah it's fairly easy to get all your medals just running in and taunting everything in sight but being completely unable to kill anything gets boring. That and on my server over 50 PVP is absolutely DOMINATED by the Republic, namely two guilds who stack 4 person premades against randoms, so not only was I not killing anything but every match was just getting rolled over and over. I also hate PVP with a passion and would hate it even if I was a DPS char because MMO PVP is boring to me (someone who prefers shooters for competitive multiplayer). PVE all the way.

I enjoy playing my tank a lot when I have a good group. I don't like queuing with randoms and having people just being idiots and not listening and then whining that I am not tanking right when they are derping around pulling 9 groups at once on Kaon or pulling aggro constantly after I've already used my taunts. Tanking is a thankless job because if you do it right no one will realize how much heat your taking off them and will think it's just their epic DPS or healing that made everything so easy and if you do it wrong (or, more likely, if THEY do something wrong) they will blame you for it. I have a great guild now so I don't have to worry about idiots but there were several times before where I'd have idiot DPSes yelling at me for stuff that wasn't my fault (usually because they were standing in some boss' fire and thinking that meant they had aggro, the example that comes to mind is the first boss on Eternity Vault when he shoots the rockets everywhere and those red circles show up on the ground. Apparently "DON'T STAND IN THE RED CIRCLE I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROTATION" is too complicated for some people) and that just sucks.

Dual spec would be nice or like someone said earlier make tanking vs. DPSing more reliant on stance than gear. Bioware has already tried as hard as it possibly can to make PVP a living hell for PVE players with its idiotic expertise points so not only do tanks have to respec their skills every time they go into PVP but if they are just trying to casually PVP they also need a completely different set of gear which also sucks. I didn't notice leveling being that difficult going full tank but now that people are mentioning it I bet if I rolled a full DPS character (my alt is a healer but like someone said before swapping between healing and DPS is just swapping skills. Swapping tank to DPS requires gear and skills) I would be amazed at how fast I would be getting through stuff.

Thought Tanks ruled in Huttball? Have not really gone to the PVP since my return since I have found PVP in tor laughable and all. Mostly back to get all the story content done and see what happens from there. My "Main" is a Tank Guardian and I do enjoy watching the q pop instantly when I go to do HM FP.

With the right gear and teammate(s), a Guardian Tank is practically unkillable.
A guide that I can recommend any PvP-Tank (or those who want to become one):
Ladispute's Tank Guide

And for the record:
I'm a convinced Guardian Tank that even tanks PUG WZs with Tanking Gear.
Result (most of the time):
- Can't tou... kill me!*
- Can't kill my guarded healer (as long as I live).
- Highest protection score (often even higher than the score of everyone else together).
- 0 MVPs.

* Well, okay, maybe you can kill me, but only if I'm pulled into a firepit while having a empty resolve bar and getting stunlocked and dps'd down while a/my healer is not in range. Still, even this can take a while.

If the problem is Tanks in the queue for FPs/OPs then give them an incentive to queue. They had the same issue in WoW for a while. They gave tanks and healers that solo queued an extra bag with some gold/gems and a chance at a unique mount.. They only received the bag if they finished the Dungeon.

Thanks.... I may have to give PVP a look see this weekend. I have like 1500 warzone coms to to spend as well.... guessing I should get my chest piece first yes? Have not even looked at the PVP vendors for the last couple of weeks.

the tanks in my guild will not use group finder because people rage too much on tanks in pugs. so they just do PVE content with people they know.

put guard on top of the tank talents and remove it for the other specs. this way tanks do get a meaning in pvp.