Tank mounts the good and bad

[givemeraptors]

I've noticed some truly atrocious tanks lately, particularly in low level dungeons but I think it has more to do with the release of the PS4 than the motivation for tank mounts (since that was implemented weeks ago and bad tanks are only just now streaming in).

[Synra]

Bad tanks? I am having the opposite problem. With 2.2 I decided to switch to full time tank, and retire the healers and damage dealer jobs I had been playing previously.

And I am a very good tank if I do say so myself. But I am ready to rage quit tanking because of the terrible people I keep getting in my roulette groups.

The biggest culprits are the BLMs. Most of my groups have one, and they are all terrible at the job. I go to pull, but before I have a chance to flash or overpower, a flare explodes on the enemies. It's insanely difficult to try to recover and maintain threat when someone spikes ALL the enemies with that much threat before I can even get started. They aren't giving me any time to establish initial threat. Worse still, half of them ONLY cast flare, even on 1 or 2 enemies, which is insanely inefficient. Boss fights take forever because the BLM is just cycling flare over and over, doing about 1/4 the damage he could be doing.

Yesterday I had a geared up level 50 WHM, who played like he was a 15 CNJ doing sastasha for the first time. He was constantly using fluid aura to knock enemies away from the melee players. He was also so busy attacking that my health was floating around 10% on pretty much every pull.

But no, I am not going to say anything to these people. I am not going to try to teach them to play better. Why? Because they are freakin level 50. Many are i90 or better. They should KNOW better by now. If they haven't figured out how to half-effectively play their job by now, there's no way I can fix them.

[AllOutWar]

The biggest culprits are the BLMs. Most of my groups have one, and they are all terrible at the job. I go to pull, but before I have a chance to flash or overpower, a flare explodes on the enemies. It's insanely difficult to try to recover and maintain threat when someone spikes ALL the enemies with that much threat before I can even get started. They aren't giving me any time to establish initial threat. Worse still, half of them ONLY cast flare, even on 1 or 2 enemies, which is insanely inefficient. Boss fights take forever because the BLM is just cycling flare over and over, doing about 1/4 the damage he could be doing.


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I have run across this as well. I guess I should have specified the tank problem is in low level dungeons. In 50 dungeons I have run across tanks who weren't all that great but never ran in to one that just uses auto attacks.

[Sisqi]

I've noticed some truly atrocious tanks lately, particularly in low level dungeons but I think it has more to do with the release of the PS4 than the motivation for tank mounts (since that was implemented weeks ago and bad tanks are only just now streaming in).

Yeah, running DF to level my CNJ lately I have seen some bad players. One thing they all have in common is the inability (or refusal) to communicate. So I assume they are on PS4. I get it, you might not have a keyboard. But you can at least read the chat log that says "please use Flash" or "please don't run ahead while I'm casting Protect" etc.