Any other tank mains thinking switching roles out of boredom?

Got my PLD to i90 so really just use it for Coil for BiS. But I've been gearing BRD, SMN AND SCH.

Good fun and handy having different jobs to chose from.

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Originally Posted by Delorean

yeah, but then i get annoyed about how much control a tank has over the success of a group

sometimes it's really painful watching some people trying to assume the responsibilities of the tank role =\

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Barring few fights, a healer's going to have more. Level a SCH?

I have my PLD for main i81
DRG is i73 w/ Relic (working on Zenith)
And I'm currently leveling up WHM for a healing class.
After that I'll probably finish with SMN for caster dps.

(that's not including my desire to finish leveling my gathering classes)

I pretty much use my tanks for about an hour or two a week (both allegan weapon i90) for coil then maybe ex, then spend the rest of time playing around on other roles. Basically gotta keep it fresh, and swapping different roles for fights is quite fun for me.

The worst thing about being a good tank is that when you do switch roles, it can be so painful to watch other people try and tank that you just go back to doing it yourself lol.

I'm leveling BLM right now to keep it fresh. But I do get pretty bored with Paladin.

Though I have started to utilize my Paladin to cap myth for hte week quickly to gear up my BLM instead of my PLD lol. If I get hard core into coil then I might spend it there but CT has been giving the needed upgrades to get up on my ilvl. Currently ilvl 72

I also would say leveling other jobs gives you the perspective of other roles thous making you a better tank.

I'm finding myself play non tank more and more. Square needs to make tanks more intersesting/engaging or DF times will get worse. Majoriy of skill checks are not healers/dps, so many tank fights stand in place 123 combo over and over.

I tank extremes for most of the week after Coil.

For everything else I switch roles around depending on whatever I feel like doing. i90 on both tanks, i86 on MNK and DRG, and i82 on BRD/WHM. BLM or SMN next, I guess.

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Originally Posted by Makado

The worst thing about being a good tank is that when you do switch roles, it can be so painful to watch other people try and tank that you just go back to doing it yourself lol.

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This. This. So very much this. I've got every class at 50 and know at least the basics of playing all of them, along with the strats for all roles in most content (I'm kind of iffy on the *exact* instructions for DPS/healer in Ifrit and t5). Because I know how to play whatever job I might see, it is so monumentally frustrating to see people that don't know how to play their class flailing about uselessly when you know exactly what they're doing wrong. It gets even more annoying when you provide explicit and straightforward instructions about what they should be doing and they still can't even manage it.

I see BRDs that don't apply DoTs, WARs that only spam the BB combo, SCHs that never use their Aetherflow stacks, healers that never go into Cleric Stance when they have nothing to heal and are full on mp, mDPS that stand in one spot, etc. It's almost painful seeing people with no clue how to play who are apparently immune to any attempt to get them to begin to play properly and be completely power

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Originally Posted by Delorean

yeah, but then i get annoyed about how much control a tank has over the success of a group

sometimes it's really painful watching some people trying to assume the responsibilities of the tank role =\

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Ya like those ak tail swipes :D