7 Reasons You Should Be Nicer to Tanks (And People in General)

[Lafier]

As far as my experiences have been, ALL classes can be jerks. However, the ones with the biggest egos are generally tanks. I had a tank stand in green poison (scorpion boss in Toto-rak) and wipe us. I said "You need to get out of that green crap", and his reply was "You trying to pick a fight?" This was a full darklight geared pally that was obviously there to help someone else queue up faster. My question though is, how is telling someone that standing in stuff is bad trying to pick a fight? Needless to say when I asked him how I was picking a fight, the answer was only silence.

TL;DR - In my experience, all jobs can be jerks, but tanks have the biggest egos.

[MadMacallan]

As far as my experiences have been, ALL classes can be jerks. However, the ones with the biggest egos are generally tanks.

TL;DR - In my experience, all jobs can be jerks, but tanks have the biggest egos.

I'll respond to this one even though many people in this thread have responded (accurately) that it's not just other roles that can be terrible human beings (hence the "and people in general" part of my title). I fully agree that many tanks feel entitled and obligated to make everyone realize how important they are. It's garbage, and probably infinitely worse than the DPS with a big mouth. But hey, that's an article for another day. So there's that.

[MadMacallan]

As far as my experiences have been, ALL classes can be jerks. However, the ones with the biggest egos are generally tanks. I had a tank stand in green poison (scorpion boss in Toto-rak) and wipe us. I said "You need to get out of that green crap", and his reply was "You trying to pick a fight?" This was a full darklight geared pally that was obviously there to help someone else queue up faster. My question though is, how is telling someone that standing in stuff is bad trying to pick a fight? Needless to say when I asked him how I was picking a fight, the answer was only silence.

TL;DR - In my experience, all jobs can be jerks, but tanks have the biggest egos.

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[Dyrstahl]

but tanks have the biggest egos.

Maybe that's why we're tanks! We like being the cool dude that takes command and we get the feeling that we hold more responsibility than a mere DPS-peasant. We're people that like to feel important and want attention. Or well, at least I am.

The higher you fly the harder you fall ya know? We sit on our high horse feeling grand so when you make us look bad, we get very hurt.