OP's perceptions are off, imo. There are lots of monks and not very many paladins, true. But there are a lot of warriors and a fair number of SKs on the server. Rogues (and to a lesser extent, rangers) feel more common than they actually are because they are almost always looking for a group, whereas almost any other class in the game can spend some time soloing if they want to. But in actuality rangers are the least popular class and rogues are bottom half of popularity or lower.
Tank gear isn't really any more expensive than anyone else's gear. You can get cheap cobalt/deepwater/blood ember armor for a bunch of AC and handy clickies while looking for dex (for warriors only, of course) and ac/hp/stam/resist options for the other slots. Hybrids don't even need good weapons or haste items since they keep aggro so well with spells. And warriors may be reliant on gear, but welcome to the life of a warrior.
I mean, you're really just whining. You think there are tons of rangers and monks on the server and that groups like them as tanks. How can you be complaining that there aren't enough tanks on the server when warriors, shadowknights, paladins, monk, and rangers all do tanking in xp groups? Lol.
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