Why no one tanks...

[Doo]

Both of these jobs have challenges. Personally, I think healing is the more challenging of the two, but tanking has the more severe social consequences of error.

Depends on the fight really.
Garuda - Pld
Ultima/Titan HM - Healer

But most of the time you can go in as a healer without knowing the fight and do fine but it's not possible to for a tank a majority of time.

[EdwinLi]

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ya that is one of the issues with tanking. However, when DPS complain about me not keeping aggro when they're the ones not targeting my Marked #1 targets I just say to them...

[yondaimeflash]

I came from a dps back ground but I have to disagree with you there CUTS3R (F'lhinna Kutseru) I am a lvl 46 whm and lvl 16 mrd and gla. As I also am playing all 3 roles I find it that the tank is the one with the most responsibility. Given I know without the healer no one could survive but if not for the tank the dps or the healers wouldn't survive. But it is my opinion and we are all entitled to our own ^.^

[LoLo]

feels

I had to remove what you said so that I could post my comment because of the word limit. I was also calling it how I see it, you can take offensive but maybe you should stop getting emotional in your comments? Reacting/commenting before reading the full comment is a knee-jerk response.

It is very easy to take hate off DD, unless you are like ilvl 65 and everyone else is ilvl 85+. If that is the case, no one would even ask you to main tank and if the MT dies there are other tanks to pick up the slack. If in some universe you are tanking MT in CT as a ilvl65 for everything how hard is it to combo where the mob is until the mod turns to you because you have gain hate and then move the mob into place? I've seen this done countless times. But honestly at ilvl 65 the mob wont turn if your party has all ilvl85+ and in that case you should be mad at yourself for not being geared to MT but demanding to MT. Know what you can do and proceed from there. MT when your gear allows you to MT.

[yondaimeflash]

You know the one thing though that I find really funny is the tanks that get all mad and complainy because the dps or who ever it was pulled. First off I know this game is nothing like 11 in a lot of way and others it is. But last I checked in 11 and other MMOs I played the tank wasn't the one pulling it was the kiting dps or dps that could in general. It isn't that hard to take hate (enmity) off of that dps that do that anyway. (have a feeling im about to get a lot of hate lmao)

[Kimzark]

People complain about tanks, because they aren't skilled enough to play tank role themselves. I saw some tanks that should throw their PCs against a wall by being so bad (like running into a group of mobs and dont flash at all... or use fast blade -> riot blade combo only). I believe thats why i rerolled from BLM to PLD. Because i couldnt hold bad tanks anymore.
Ill continue tanking, because of my beloved insta queues (and my coil party which needs me badly :P), and i dont even care if they BM against me, or kick me... i have insta queues, and they will be stuck in a dungeon without a tank, or leave and be on queue for 10 minutes (or more).

[Alaina]

False.

Tanking is mindnumbingly boring.

This Right Here....

[Arkista]

Snip

Last I checked Tanking in FFXI was way more fun than XIV.

[Warlyx]

leveled my pld to 50 (4 job) , tanked the whole way in dungeons , made my relic (One tanked chimera and hydra (hydra as 1 tank is fun....), OT ifrit/garuda HM , 1 tanked titan of course )...

tanked CT 5 times (most boring thing ever...) , got some Myth gear and CT , my pld ilvl is 78 i think

why i dont keep tanking? i dont have exp as tank in Extreme modes (only place i can get some upgrades ), and no1 wants a newbie tank there (i clear coil and extreme every week but as dps)

i would love to keep tanking but not gonna bother , too much headache getting a spot as tank and wiping partys in order to learn encounters (getting harrased in process of course) ? no thanks.

[CrystalRainbow]

What I find more interest isn't that there isn't people tanking.

It's that when I do CT recently my wife as a warrior does /a Anyone want to MT?
None of the tanks volunteer. It's like the fear stepping up and something bad happening. So last 4 runs she had to main tank the run which is fine but the game shouldn't be causing stress but because people get so crazy if something goes wrong there is a little more pressure making sure nothing goes sideways.

She says one of her favorite thing however is when MT dies and she can hope in and voke to save the day. It's why she doesn't offer to MT and when she does this it makes her fell like the runs hero.

Now my wife who is main Warrior, has no problem MT anything, As long as no one else wants to do it over her.
She is just that way. Give everyone else a chance to step up before she just does it.