Gear is partially to blame for tank shortage

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Ok...didnt want to read Ur walll.....got it....
So U think tanks need special talents to make them dps at will. HrMmmmmmm.... Well i want to heal at will with special talents so I do not have to have 2 sets of gear on my dps. Every Mmo that uses trinity and talent trees has u in a specific role. Suggestion.....to save us new content time taken away by ur spoiled view...collect a dps set and stop crying.

Rift managed to do something like this when I was still playing it. However, I think pvp would need to be looked at if you were going to increase the amount of damage a tank would put out in their tank spec - especially in pvp. Otherwise everyone would be running around doing more dps but still hard to kill.

I remember my healer in battlegrounds in Rift being able to kill someone 7 levels higher then me because I could literally out heal them and do decent dps.

Putting that aside, I think it would make it easier for people that want to tank to be able to do so. And it might attract dps that would like to contribute or get good queue times that were able to tank.

Another take on this which I thought would help more is to allow dual specs. Letting people respec between the choices they made at level 10 - a sith inquisitor could go freely between assasin and sorcerer to respec. The huge amount of marauders could feel free to spec into juggernaut. They could even make it so that this would be a subscriber benefit only - making people want to keep their sub going.

Its not a gear issue, its a design issue, shields dont work on force or tech attacks and armour mitigation is not working as it should be but fundamentally the reason we dont see so many tanks is that they are not so much fun or as enjoyable (for the most part for the majority of people)

I get that some people have a blast and are awesome tanks but in the groupfinder I can sit for ages waiting for a pop as a DPS and yet the minute I tick the tank box on my assassin because Im tired of waiting then its instapop, and I dont want to play as a tank.

Its all about fun, and they didnt dial it into their tank "vision"

maybe the shortage is because no one wants to be a tank and have to think and be cautious of things?

I heal and tank on my toons. Its not hard, its the dps who are the idiots.

Sorry, but tanks are balanced right now. I don't understand why people want un-killable juggernauts.
In PvP, a Tank/Healer combo can already hold a node vs 4+ people for a long time. And as long as that tank had a healer in Huttball he would never die.

Sorry but it's balanced the way it is.

No need to be having tanks with 30K base health along with 2x their defenses they already have.

Was thinking the exact same thing as I read the OP. Tanks Tank. They don't DPS.

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Does anyone consider the fact that most people don't like to tank anyways? This is not just a problem in this game, it's in every game. It goes DPS > Healing > Tank. Tanking is perceived as being not as fun as DPSing or healing.

This pretty much sums it up.....has nothing to do with gear. Although, it does take effort to be a "good" DPS....still, less effort than a good tank or good healer though. A good DPS player will pay attention to what's going on and try to make the job of the tank and healer easier. A bad DPS player just fires away without a second thought and expects the tank and healer to constantly bale them out and carry them through the encounter. Unfortunately, there are a lot more bad DPS players than good ones....and, if they can't even play a DPS role decently, I sure don't want them running a tank or healer for my group, lol.