Why does everyone blame the tank?

[BinaryJack]

Also, yes I can confirm bots, I was in another party today with one, tank auto attacked a single target, no flashes and wouldn't chase after other targets we talked about him the whole time and he didn't say anything to us. He was in tamtara appropriate gear for tamtara, and he rolled greed on a pld shld. The tank was a pld.

I've seen one in toto as well as somewhere else. We saw the one in toto die and instantly respawn at our location :/

Bots? Really?
Perhaps just a bad tank?

[ToukonEvia]

A lot of the time, it's hard to blame one single person. I will say I've caused very little amount of wipes though, just like I'm sure there are many healers/DPS who can say the say thing. Why? Research.

It's a very big, very open MMO title. I read up on dungeons before I go in there so I know what to expect etc. The same way I know where to aim next for my equipment upgrade. I don't understand how any player thinks they can wander into an MMO and know nothing about what they're doing and do no research.

Worse, when you do have suggestions, people can be so abusive. I got called a c*nt in a group the other day for saying 'What's causing the wipe? Is it a case of low DPS?', met with an abusive response from a black mage. Vote to kick, and it was a unanimous decision. So general people skills also help.

I'm finding now I'm at endgame and doing harder dungeons, I'm suffering the misfortune of playing with these kinds of people much less than when I wasn't at level cap.

[Coth_X]

Bots? Really?
Perhaps just a bad tank?

You can tell by the way they run around in the dungeon too. They don't actually follow anyone if they are lost, the one in totorak got turned around cause of how maze like that place is, and had an obvious client hack since it died and didn't respawn at the start of the dungeon.

I have yet to see a healer that acts this way, but with the gil sellers promising fast leveling, its pretty bad when you get one. I doubt you'll see any in post 50 dungeons, unless the gil sellers start promising fast myth grinds :/

The latest one i had in tam tara didn't ever even wait for us, he would pass the boss line and run straight up to the priests. It was too mindless for even a bad tank.

Even bad tanks will talk to you if you say something to them, or they will respond by at least changing tactics.