Extra incentive for tanks

kadochka · July 2017

Friend suggested this, so I'm posting it for them.
They suggested that, as an idea for dungeons/pledges, tanks would get an extra undaunted key or better loot in dungeons, just as a way to incentivize tanks and speed up the queue waiting times for DPS players. There are, of course, some people that might queue as tanks, just for the extra boost/items, but there might be a way to work around this.
Any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated!
~Kado

Tito86 · August 2017

Then all players would queue as Tanks

kichwas · August 2017

Is tanking unpopular here (Newish player, 1 and a half weeks, so that's a genuine question)?

If it's like other MMOs where nobody wants to do the funnest thing in the game (tanking) because they all like being bored (DPSing)...

... Then this won't help or overstack things.

They do bonuses like this in WoW and FFXIV... and people still refuse to play the fun role.

At the end of the day... you just have to like tanking or you won't do it.

Tank players... we generally look at the other stuff and avoid it like it has cooties (it does, trust me)...
And all the rest of you avoid tanking...

Holding a carrot in front of players generally won't get them to play a style of play they don't like. At best you will lure a small number of people who were on the fence and not interested in actually mastering the role - and they will filter out after a few weeks when they figure out that putting up with 'the pain' of something they dislike is not worth the reward for it.

It's a bit like this...

I walk up to you and offer you $20, if you let me punch you in the teeth. Not enough? At what point will you go for it... and even then, after you're missing half your teeth and mulling over a lifetime of medical and dental bills, will you keep at it to keep getting paid?

These gimmicks worked in WoW for about a month when they first added them years ago, and then things went back to normal... People decided they preferred keeping their teeth.