And this issue will never be fixed. You simply can’t fix it. There will always be more dps.
You can apply to 50 groups, but each group will have 50 dps applied. You just have to learn to live with it.
Maybe it would be a less of an issue if we didn’t have crosservers.
Its basically required to no life the game week 1 and spam keys to get your IO ahead of everyone else.
Then you get invites and get even further ahead.
Everyone who doesnt is stuck pushing their key 1 level at a time.
It is pretty miserable. The only fix is a match making system where Blizz puts groups together and factors everything to make a decent run.
There’s a reason tank queues are instant and DPS has to wait up to 15 minutes sometimes. It only gets worse in Solo Shuffle. I switched to resto shaman for solo shuffle due to the 40 minute fury war queues
Instances require more dps, “fixing it” isn’t required.
I think that’d make it worse, since it’d limit the pool.
the level 13 mage has spoken.
But it would make personal reputation matter more than just existing and sitting in queue. I’ve played enough pservers to know that it actually works.
well maybe if the angry andy would stop making anti tank threads then there would be more tanks
We’d go from 50 DPS applying for 50 different parties to 50 DPS having 4 parties to choose from. 
Solution for me; play an easy tank. 
Got KSM fairly early last season.
I don’t think that has to do with why people don’t want to tank or heal. Every MMO has this sort of shortage. People just don’t want responsibility in instances. They just want to zerg everything down and leave.
You can add tank spec to every class and amount of tank players will not change at all
I love to DPS, but I am forced into permanently playing tank or healer on all of my classes. It sucks because I like to pump. My two favorite raid tiers were Cataclysm: Dragon Soul, and Legion: Emerald Nightmare.
In Dragon Soul I was Shadow Priest and with Tarecgosa’s Rest, Cunning of the Cruel and Unbinding Will trinkets. I did so much damage, and had a blast. In Emerald Nightmare I had the Dragon’s Breathe legendary and the Time Warp legendary Ring. I also had the Wriggling Sinew. I would combust the crap out of everything and absolutely shred. In both tiers I was a top 200 world DPS for my class and overall DPS on WCL. It was fun getting random e-mails from guilds recruiting, and more fun not having to tank or heal.
Tanks and heals just have too much put on them in terms of blame for almost everything. Crappy DPS can’t kill a boss fast? WELL IT’S THE HEALERS FAULT THEY HAD NO MANA TO HEAL THROUGH A 30 MINUTE FIGHT! DPS died to avoidable mechanics? LOL HEALER BAD CAN’T EVEN HEAL LOLLLOL! Group wipes on a pull where DPS initiated? LOL TANK BAD NO AGRO! Don’t know exactly how to run a route or fully understand mechanics? KICK TANK SO SUCK (meanwhile none of them really know the mechs either and just raging).
Yea I just think this game is designed for DPS to be on easy mode while other roles have the short end of the stick.
Can confirm same issue exists in FFXIV. It’s 95% of the time Tank/Healer in need.
No it does not. The real problem is PUG tanks, there are so few and far between. Any guild who has there own tanks and rarely venture outside their members. Classic was a very good example of this.
Not to mention how this community treats one another after making a mistake. Not many want to take the leadership role and plow others through a dungeon while they’re being berated.
The community has beaten down Tanks and Healers for nearly 20 years and this is the result. Congratulations. You played stupid games and won stupid prizes.
tank is just not fun to play at high end content, community has nothing to do with it.
If anything in vanilla tanks literally sell their service for gold or green drops. So few of them exist .
This “whataboutism” right here is why tanks have fled. You still dont get it. You still think you’re right, despite every tank telling you to the contrary, but no, you know better.
So glad I dont tank for this game anymore. I really hate all of you these days
I feel there’s an obvious solution that isn’t being explored here.
This. If it was just the fact that pugs are full of crappy people, you probably wouldn’t see such a big disparity between dps and tank/healer roles in guilds.
the “remove all roles from the game” is not a solution