Dear DPS....I am *SO* sorry

[Quor]

Hi. My name is Alexya, and I'm a tank.

I'd like to think I'm a pretty good tank too. I know my role, I mark my targets, pickup adds, the whole lot. I even make a habit of commending DPS who show that they're thinking outside the "max dmg!" box. You know, the BRD's who silence a spell, the DRG's and MNK's who stun and debuff and what not. The SMN's and BLM's who pull off the clutch pet OT or CC, or just wow me with how well they manage to kick ass without taking aggro. That kinda thing.

I'm always courteous. Because this is a game and I deal with enough assholes IRL. Besides, it's just nice. Get what you give sorta thing.

Naturally, I have a lot friends who aren't tanks, many of them DPS. For awhile, I was the only tank in my FC, so I got a lot of work. I've heard the stories about long queue times and primadonna tanks who fly off the handle when a mob is killed .5s too late and what not. But I've never EXPERIENCED it.

And then Crystal Tower was released. And I was thrust into a whole new world with four or five other tanks I did not know.

Let me just say.....wow. I mean....wow. Stories are one thing, but experience is something else entirely. Ho-lee shit. There are some monumental dicks out there, and they allllll seem to have picked a tank class to play.

My experience tonight was to have a warrior with inferior gear and experience try to tell me how to do my job in CT, and then proceed to die on the last boss. You know....the one with the amazingly telegraphed moveset that can be avoided in your sleep? Yeah, that one. It was like this for the entire last half of the instance. We also had that one tank who doesn't give a crap about your "buffing" or "being ready" who decides to pull when half the alliance is outside the boss zone, and then berates people for taking too long.

I once was blind, but now I see. And on behalf of those asshole tanks everywhere, I apologize. Truly the crap you guys have to wade through is some of the stinkiest out there.

[Velox]

It happens a lot with healers too from what I've seen. I think these "less than desirable" players gravitate to those roles for 2 reasons. A) it gives them a position of power for them to stroke their epeens (having the party's life in your hands). And B) incredibly shorter queue times for DF. Just today there was a WHM harassing everyone in Alliance chat because we wiped a few times, when clearly a LOT of people stated at the beginning that they were new. Once the name-calling started though, I was glad because that gave me evidence to report them with (which is sadly all you can do really) :3

[dron13]

The worst thing I've seen in CT was when I tried to tell the bad tank the tactics.
When I said "friend, A team was all the dungeon on the left side, here we should do the same. Pleasem lure left Vassago", he said that I'm "crappy noob" and just aggroed the right one again =) the C ally was quite surprised. Nice that we can votekick some players. Really like that new option. I t works everytime it really needed - those who are votekicked because of stuff like that are often soloing

[AldricBranchais]

It's honestly not just tanks. It's most of this community. Not really sure why, but this is the absolute worst community I've experienced in MMOs.

You've never played WoW then.

What I hate most is people gaming the ilvl requirements. Had a blm in titan ex that had a mix of tanking/healing accessories.

[Samich4ME]

Neverwinter: worst.community.ever. (to me anyway)

League of Legends... OCE server...
So much mud slinging...

[Noata]

Its not just tanks or healers. there are plenty of baddies out there. You gotta kick them. they are not worth carrying. kick them to the curb and keep going. all they do is piss off the party and slow you down.

[Umero]

Its not just tanks or healers. there are plenty of baddies out there. You gotta kick them. they are not worth carrying. kick them to the curb and keep going. all they do is piss off the party and slow you down.

that's exactly why they separate JP and NA/EU to have different sets of servers. Because they grow tired of dealing with non-JP lol
Not racist, just analysis.

[Ooshima]

that's exactly why they separate JP and NA/EU to have different sets of servers. Because they grow tired of dealing with non-JP lol
Not racist, just analysis.

Sorry but not all JP are good, most are. Ran Titan HM for quite a bit to get some titan weapons. Think the better ones went to farm EM primals and I miss those times where we could 1/2-shot Titan HM on a J pug.

NOT being elitist and expect everyone to be able to one shot titan, but I guess having simple expectations such as don't stand in the line of fire, being appropriately geared (3.1k WHM wearing ilevel 30+ accessories?) and don't start dying like ants not even half way thru the battle is normal?

[Viridiana]

that's exactly why they separate JP and NA/EU to have different sets of servers. Because they grow tired of dealing with non-JP lol
Not racist, just analysis.

Not racist, just this one race is subjectively better. Got it.

[Zoomie]

Not racist, just this one race is subjectively better. Got it.

If anything its a dig at the NA culture. Being an NA player myself I can't argue against his pov that a large portion of the community sucks. I'm certainly not going to defend us, lol.