Serious lack of tanks here

[Morningbreath]

I know the devs...slavishly stick to the original server progression but it's really hard to find a tank these days. Monks, rogues and rangers are everywhere but actual plate tanks don't seem to be around. I did some /who all checks last night and I could almost count the plate classes in a 7-level range on one hand.

The choices for people wanting to play a tank kind of stink. You either play a warrior with nothing but his gear and taunt/kick for abilities or go sk/pal with that GODAWFUL hybrid exp penalty.

Plate armor of any kind is overpriced and overly rare. It takes high smithing to make and in regular gameplay situations you'll not even get to play just because the groups out there have already settled on a monk/ranger to "tank".

What's odd is even back in the day the game was packed to the gills with warriors especially. Finding tanks at low-mid level wasn't a problem either.