Fave and Least Fave

This thread is simple. What is your fave thing about being a tank and what is your least fave. This could range from poor healers, too people using Gold Carby.

Fave: I just love tanking! I find it fun to keep hate and how much hate I can keep. I especially love when I get so much hate my DD's can let lose and they don't get hate. I just like to test myself and my limits on how much I can hold as well and how well. I am always trying every fight to hold hate more and better. This is my fave thing about tanking, holding hate.

Least Fave: Bad, uptight, or annoying Healers. You know which ones I am talking about. The ones that think they know how to do your job. However, they manage to suck at theirs. These are the healers that usually go AFK mid boss fight or just don't cure you at all. The relationship between a healer and a tank is a special one. This is why this bugs me! ol

Fav: Being needed, being a central part of any successful dungeon or raid.

Least Fav: I agree with you, people who think they know all about tanking and can't even manage to DPS or heal correctly. The other day I had a healer who chain pulled all of Sastasha, DPS'd until I was <25% health and only then would throw a heal (I ended up dying 2 or 3 times). The DPS all focused on different trash mobs and ended up pulling them off me and running around aimlessly while I was trying to get enmity back. Also there was no mechanic on the last boss... because no one interacted with the pools. I just grabbed the adds as they spawned and tanked everything.

Least favorite thing about tanking: Only seeing a monsters legs and missing out on a cool looking fight

^ Yeah lol the camera lock is important but takes away from the fight for us tanks. Warrior power!

Hum hum...where to start...

Fave:
- Being able to take on multiple mobs and not worry about my HP being bursted down.

- Playing melee and being able to go head to head with bosses.

- Being able to keep everyone safe and allowing them to go all out on the boss

Least:

- Party members expecting me to already know where to go in an instance even if I state it's my first time there.

- Having to deal with people who constantly run ahead of me and pull mob aggro.

- Always being blamed if things turn ugly.

There's a few more to list in both areas but I'll leave it at that. ;)

Fave: So long as you walk by my side, I shall protect you. Much like my main of white mage, I like the thought of holding the party's life in my hands. I feel important, like more than just a cog (which is how I feel when I DPS). Success or failure hinges on my own abilities, and that just makes fights all kinds of exciting.

Least: People who pull hate or get aggro, and then proceed to run around the arena, believing that by running away they're taking less damage. No, you're really not. On a side note, people who attack targets other than mine. I'd rather have my damage taken lessened by having mobs dead (Which tends to happen when we all pile on one mob, go fig) than by DDs in squishier armor dragging stuff off of me. At least, I tell myself they think they're helping my trying to pull mobs off me. I try not to believe my party members are so lazy they just target the nearest whatever and attack.

Fave: I live forever.
Least: It's tiring to be an immortal.
:D

My Fav - Protecting my allies in battle, keeping the danger away from the dd's and healers.

Holding the hate, kinda like the OP said, testing myself. Being the backbone of the fight.

The cool heavy and shiny gear we get, especially the crown for us PLD's because we are kings! :D

Least Fav - My biggest annoyance when tanking is stupid hot headed dd's who go in guns blazing thinking they can take everything and then end up wiping. Which in turn makes the healers job harder and is less focused on me.

Also I hate it when healers wait until you're almost dead to heal you, I understand they might want to conserve mp or generate less hate but its not a viable excuse and its a big risk.

Fav: Holding hate, tanking well, it's always fun to try and do better each time. People love you because you're a tank, quick groups for everything, and being a focal part of every group.

Least Fav: All the GLD is better than MRD or MRD is better than GLD BS I keep hearing, they are different classes and both do well. Bad groups, uptight groups, no communication in a group, healers that don't know what they are doing and won't accept help if you try and help them.

I had a group during P4, all 3 of them wouldn't talk, no communication at all, THM would just try to pull mobs off me and it just got annoying. When my server crashed and kicked me off at the last boss fight I wasn't really upset about ditching them.

Fav: First in last out, Saving the day when things go horribly wrong behind you, parrying something 2 to 3 stories taller then you

Least fav: Experimention hurts for you the most

Fav: being a wall that stops the damage from reaching my allies... with the help of a competent healer of course :D

Also being first on the boss's "must kill first" list is a big plus :D

Least fav: my first party as a tank, the healer that tries to DD and got me killed 6 times in Sastasha because he wanted to cast Fluid Aura and Stone instead of curing me. I died on the very first mob group of bats... I was able to hold hate all of the time except when I'm dead or when the "healer" spams Medica, but after the 6th death, I had to rely on the Arcanist to heal me up. Also a pain when the healer spams Medica over a slight scratch on him or her or limit breaking when only 2 people aren't even at 50% HP.

I was originally the healer of the groups I've been in, so I didn't know the terrors until recently... My rant can go further... but I'll wait for when the lodestone is up and blog about it >_>

Favorite Part: Everything about the class: armor, skills, etc.

Least Favorite: Boss Mechanics are pretty plain... and the camera view haha.

Fave: Insta queues, Being a leader

Least fave: People blaming me for their mistakes.


Im glad people arnt complaining about Topaz Carby. IMO it only helps keep your HP from going down, it helps keep adds off dps/healer even more... (it also does an nice AOE on low CD)

My favorite thing is running in first and hitting all the things. Least favorite is when I die first.


...actually let me change that, my least favorite is getting blamed for other players mistakes. Which is why I much prefer to stick to playing with my LS/FC. They know my style, and put having fun over everything else. That's not to say I don't screw up, I know I'm not the best player out there. When I screw up, I own it, and I expect everyone else to do the same.

Fav: Being able to keep the fight organized, knowing that I am crucial to a positive experience for everyone!

Least Fav: When you go through the pain of painting signs on your mobs only to have the DPS ignore them and just spasm around hitting anything that moves.

Fave: DPS gets themselves killed and the healer and I manage to finish a boss alone (happened a couple of times in Cata... so fun)

Least: The stress. I enjoy the responsibility but not the stress that comes with it. Usually only happens in PUGs.

Favorite: Leadership role. I like having the most power in dictating how the fights will play out.

Least: The 2.5 GCD, not that it's tank specific but I just can't get used to it.

Fav: The heavy armour, super sexy on a Lala

Least fav: DD who feel the need to show off their CC/Kiting skills and go one-on-one with a mob during a group pull, rather than doing their jobs and dps'ing the marked target.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Eurell

Least favorite thing about tanking: Only seeing a monsters legs and missing out on a cool looking fight

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I agree with this 100%. So many years raiding and so much time being stuck between the legs of giant bosses. /cry

Favorite thing - Wrestling hate with awesome dps. Don't get me wrong, no one likes overzealous dps. But when they're good and and you're on top of your game as well. That tension is kind of exciting to me.

Fav: The ability to hold hate, protect allies and taking hits from something 10 times bigger than you.

Least Fav: Idiots who try to pull hate from me and get themselves killed.

Fav: Everything about tanking. The hate-holding, damage mitigating, high hp, just all of it.

Least Fav: When DPS don't follow the marks I laid out and they end up pulling too much hate on themselves. Sometimes, I think it might just be that some people believe the marks as counting down from 3, 2, 1 rather than the way I intended.

Fav: Acting as the defacto leader of the party
Feeling like a true hero when you hold agro with multiple targets and protect your team

Least: When I have to do missions solo D:
When DD's run ahead and pull everything. In those instances, if they keep doing it, I will eventually let them take all the hate and allow them to wipe the party. Then I will politely say. (Gladiator) = (monster) (fishing) ok? ^_^ They usually learn the lesson pretty quick and the whole party seems to work a little better.

Fave: The chaos and rush

L Fave: The chaos and rush

Actually I like it when everything is going smooth and then someone goes linkdead or a cat jumps on a keyboard and another group of aggro comes rushing to an already existing fight.

I also hate that.

But I love it.

I swear I don't cut myself for fun.

:cool:

Fav: Insta-queue on the Duty Finder.
Least Fav: Trigger happy DPS-folks.

Fav: Insta-que! Being punched in the face and taking it like a man so my friends don't! Learning the ins and outs of situational abilities to help hold hate or keep myself and everyone alive while the DPS just worry about button mashing until the boss is dead. Putting on heavy armor, grabbing a sword and shield and being awesome!

Least Fav: The "Go" guy, the L2PN00B healer that doesn't heal anyone. Being blamed for every wipe no matter who's fault it was.

Fav:
The exploration
Nostalgia
Dps/tank/healer love all roles tried them all

Least fave:
Tanks who refuse to tank, happened alot when I did dungeons as a healer
I wouldn't heal or run ahead always waited till tank initiated a pull and fight but then would get those ones mainly marauder ( sorry to all the good marauder tanks) they wouldn't use any eminity skills to pull the hate so I could heal without pulling all the mobs to me so thus ended up just having to heal with medica over and over to keep me and the dps alive while tanking all as well and they would look dumbfounded at what happened I even offered help on there rotation to keep the hate since my friend is a amazing tank and taught me how to tank effectively tho they refused to listen and just played there way so I apologized to the dps because there was no way I could tank the last bosses In the instance and keep everyone healed as a conj so we all left the tank to fend for him/ herself.

Favorite-

Tanking. Pretty much everything about it.

Least-

Duty finder parties. I queue WHM most of the time just so I don't have to deal with poor PUG dynamics and people not paying attention.

Favorite: Amazing looking armor, huge axes (Warriors), taking the lead in a group, and honestly having no competition for loot in 4 man dungeons.

Least: DPS players who have no clue how to control their aggro and unleash everything they have on the wrong target and cause me to run around like a mad man chasing down loose adds. This was primarily Archers in phase 4 unfortunately.

Favorite: - keeping people safe and feeling like the "leader" of the group where the tank goes the rest follow even if it's the wrong area >:D If you jump off a bridge they follow and take fall damage muhahaha!
- every battle is different DDs may not follow your call signs and kill out of order and mobs do different attacks at different times and you need to avoid AoE circles or cone dmg (keeping face away from the healers etc.)

Least Favorite: I don't really *like* how people tell me how to do my job or give me advice or when there is no communication in the party or people don't follow the kill order I place on the mobs.

P.S. people that say they don't like it when ppl tell them how to do there job on this tread go right back around and say "conj don't know how to play there job" maybe you are just under geared and conj can't keep you alive... at the same time conj might suck but it's there job let them do it and don't bash them because of it. if they ask for help offer some advice

Favorite: I love being able to fight multiple enemies. Some people are afraid, or at least dislike, the groups of enemies but I find them to be extremely fun. The next thing I love is Gladiator / paladin specific, but I love Shield Bash in this game. It's really useful.

Least favorite: Until this morning I actually didn't have one but it is now getting blamed if the party wipes. I admit that i'm not the best tank in FFXIV and I make mistakes sometimes, but when it's clearly the fault of a DD "not wanting to do something" we agreed on during a boss fight or something else out of my control it's a little bit frustrating that they still blame me.

Fav: Never roll an alt ever again. (Side Bar: I know there are other games that has this, but this is Final Fantasy which is enough said on its own)
Least Fav: Exit Game.

Fave: Short Queues, Marauder/Warrior is just awesome and a Tank to boot, love helping people if I can, very hard to kill.

Least: DPS that run ahead of me in dungeons, DPS that don't listen in dungeons, healers that afk during boss fights, role can be stressful, having to lead the party even if you've never been in the instance before :/

Fav: shields, slamming shields into faces, polishing my shield, using my shield as a sled, using my shield as a plate, pretending to be a Giant Tortoise with my shield. Oh shields .... how I love them.

Least Fav: people who don't like shields.

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Originally Posted by Eurell

Least favorite thing about tanking: Only seeing a monsters legs and missing out on a cool looking fight

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You mean buffalo nutsack isn't your favorite view?

Best thing about a tank is when you're sitting in the middle of six enemies, drawing alllll their attention and still able to keep alive due to an awesome healer.

Conversely, BAD HEALERS who try to cast attack spells in dungeons when you're being swamped. Runner up is when dps classes sit and attack whoever you AREN'T attacking, grab its attention, then you do that awkward running-flashing-provoking dance to try and regrab their attention while you're being attacked by other mobs.

Bleh.