Don't pull it if you can't hold it!

[ariaandkia]

Blissa, your not telling any tank anything they don't know. Sorry if you played with a bad one, but talking to THAT tank is much more effective than trying to PSA all tanks who likely CAN hold onto a large group.

PS: If you died in Brayflox, please try to tank it yourself, and see how frustrating it can be when Paralyze procs 5 times in a row on you, and your unable to hit a CD, or an Overpower/Flash in time.

I kind of have to agree with both sides here. On one hand, tanks SHOULD know. On the other hand, from personal experience, most tanks that do dungeons don't know (I don't consider the scenario "dungeons" as dungeons-those tanks tend to be good).

As for bray, it can be frustrating but at the same time, tank should be planning accordingly. Even worse is when I'm curing paralyze right away or when it doesn't even proc and they still can't hold aggro at all. Had one tank just stand there attacking one enemy using his aoes on one single enemy while the party was fighting the rest of the enemies. I dropped the tank to save the party. Tank blamed me for dying and thought that the party was the "worst party ever". Same tank that didn't realize that our BLM was afk at the start of the duty and who thought the BLM was attacking the mobs. (Despite no fire explosions or ice explosions or any explosions). Where our Lancer was the only DPS we had. Both me and DPS noticed but tank was clueless.

First time, tank held aggro at least so we lasted a good minute before my MP finally died from spamming cure 2 to keep the tank alive. Granted, the lancer was kind of watching his aggro from what I saw and wasn't randomly AoE'ing or anything and was even attacking same target as the tank.

Second time, tank completely lost aggro. First to the BLM then even to the Lancer who was probably trying to save me from all the enemies that suddenly rushed me. Tank just stands there aoe'ing ONE target while the rest are everywhere else.

That is just one of the many. For every good run, I'll get 3 decent runs and 10-20 bad runs.

It has gotten so bad that I've learned to tank on my THM/BLM/ARC/SMN/CON/WHM/SCH. Notice anything wrong there with that class lineup and theoretical ability to tank?