Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

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Originally Posted by Ebonwings

Thanks everyone for responding. I'll keep what you guys suggested in mind and try it next time I run M4. One more thing when BJ appear and does his knockback aoe, does the damage is based on proximity like when he jump?

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I assume when you say "he jump", you're refering to the transition into add phase. well Spoiler alert: that is not proximity based. lol

I was leveling an alt last night as GLA(17?), and I was just thinking how I had the stereotypical worst party imaginable (not counting rude players) in a dungeon. I had two DPS going full force on different enemies and a healer that was spamming heals on me. Every time I took 30-40 damage, I saw a heal for 270-360. I was able to hold threat since I'm a veteran at this point, but it was just ridiculous how uncoordinated and inefficient that group was. I didn't feel like saying anything, which is probably a bad thing to do considering the next tank that if the next tank they come across is relatively new, that tank is going to have a very bad time.

Lol ok guess I don't have to worry and that. :p since I love finding ways to minimize dmg as much as possible so I could bored the healers out. XD

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Originally Posted by Noxifer

Mostly I agree. There's really no need to heal anyone right away, since only the tanks are going to be taking damage until after DRP. And sure, healing the tanks, but... I know as OT, I stick to Defiance through the pre-buffing/healing until after Brute Justice lands, and without any healing landing on me after the raidwide, I'm at max HP again when I switch to Deliverance. Meaning I've taken less than 20% of my HP pool in damage. So... yeah, it's not going to be that much of an issue during the first few seconds.

But... Stoneskin2? Mid-combat? O.o What have you been smoking?

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Casting it mid combat isn't a huge problem. Similar to casting Raise mid-combat.
Swiftcast is a thing.

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Originally Posted by Ebonwings

Thanks everyone for responding. I'll keep what you guys suggested in mind and try it next time I run M4. One more thing when BJ appear and does his knockback aoe, does the damage is based on proximity like when he jump?

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I've not noticed any more damage, no.

Mostly everyone gathers together because Sacred Soil and AE heals are simpler that way.

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Originally Posted by Pells

Casting it mid combat isn't a huge problem. Similar to casting Raise mid-combat.
Swiftcast is a thing.

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What he meant was that stoneskin 2 cannot be used during combat. Only the single target stoneskin can be casted mid fight.

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Originally Posted by KeiranOlive

What he meant was that stoneskin 2 cannot be used during combat. Only the single target stoneskin can be casted mid fight.

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Ah. Yes. That would be a problem.

I've only been playing a couple of months and tried my hand at tanking for the very first in my first dungeon last week. I ended up grouped with 2 really well geared lvl 60 DPS, a BLM and a BRD and a high level healer (all scaled down of course). No matter what I did, I lost aggro on almost every pull. We didn't wipe and nobody complained, however, it wasn't a great tanking experience and I haven't tanked again since. It's time to try again I think :cool:

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Originally Posted by Clansman2016

I've only been playing a couple of months and tried my hand at tanking for the very first in my first dungeon last week. I ended up grouped with 2 really well geared lvl 60 DPS, a BLM and a BRD and a high level healer (all scaled down of course). No matter what I did, I lost aggro on almost every pull. We didn't wipe and nobody complained, however, it wasn't a great tanking experience and I haven't tanked again since. It's time to try again I think :cool:

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Don't worry too much about it in this case where tank is outgeared by DPS and healer there's nothing much we can do except try spamming flash/unleash/overpower, and RoH/PS/Butcher Block combo ( Hence I'm not a WAR yet, so excuse my WAR rotation) in order to get as much aggro as we can.

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Originally Posted by Clansman2016

I've only been playing a couple of months and tried my hand at tanking for the very first in my first dungeon last week. I ended up grouped with 2 really well geared lvl 60 DPS, a BLM and a BRD and a high level healer (all scaled down of course). No matter what I did, I lost aggro on almost every pull. We didn't wipe and nobody complained, however, it wasn't a great tanking experience and I haven't tanked again since. It's time to try again I think :cool:

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Honestly, its a scaling issue. it is completely normal for a synced level 60 tank to have emnity issues under those circumstances depending on the dungeon. you can imagine how much worse it is as a freshly/undergeared tank with little experience going into that. If it was any dungeon pre- toto-rak, its honestly so common that it's expected. I wouldn't be too discouraged over it. however, after level 26 (30 for warrior) and you get your 3rd emnity combo(rage of halone/power slash/butcher's block), that will START being less and less of an issue.

honestly for low level first time tanking, i would highly suggest drk if you have a 60. unleash+blood weapon gives you a very reliable AoE tanking base the other 2 dont have pre-30, and translates very well to gladiator with flash and riot blade