Why does everyone blame the tank?

[Sakasa]

The point is to clear the content, so everyone should do everything they can to help toward that goal.

True but there are some that just like something just the right way Louis CK said it best "But that only meets 99% of my criteria!". I feel bad for people that get railed on as a tank and everyone else just sit there and lets it happen especially for honest mistakes that have nothing to do with gear checks or them. Wanderer's palace is one such place as much as I hate that place (blame myth grinding) I know every safe spot, aggro range, and odd quirks of some of the mobs. But it never ceases to amaze me when someone blames the tank for dying on the skeleton/ghost/tonberry pull by the stalker because they decided to be the one guy that has to kill just the tonberry first will full buffs before they reach the tank and catches a knife from the berry and the stalker and goes down like Fraser and insults intow.

[Thaliss]

Is there no voice chat in game, or am I just doing something wrong? I can't stand the chat box thing. Last dungeon I did, (still practicing) after it was over one of the people gave props to everyone except me. Was like now what did I do wrong? We made it through and I thought I did a decent job. I went back thought the chat window and saw a message to me that I forgot to go to one room where there was treasure.

I can't really watch that window while trying to manage the aggro bars, everything happens so fast, I don't even see the messages that come up in there. So is there no voice chat?

Yoshi-P said, in a live letter, they didn't want to force players to use voice chat.
About text chat, you can filter so you don't get useless messages, choose a color easier for you to notice party chat, and even set a sound notice.

[RickmanUK]

Ok.. New one... for me anyway.
Had an FC Member (and Cousin who was sat Next too me) Join a Stone Vigil that had a tank (Paladin, iLevel 94-95 from my Estimate) that instantly DCed re-joined DCed and Wanted too be Kicked then Refused too tank on the Basis that and i Quote "You Guys will get XP" 90 Minutes Later (Everyone Except the Tank was on the Same Server and said the Same, "You want out, you Eat the Penalty") the Dungeon Ended and everyone Re-joined with a New Tank.

Is this Common? Or Was he Just a Douche?

[MeiUshu]

uhmm isnt there a vote for kicking ? why didnt they use it ?.......someone like that is not worth having and at any rate useless..probably one of the few times I wuold have agreed to kick someone lol....and yes he is just selfish and ignorant, though lately is trend that tends to repeat itself too often

Mei

[Aloreal]

Yoshi-P said, in a live letter, they didn't want to force players to use voice chat.
About text chat, you can filter so you don't get useless messages, choose a color easier for you to notice party chat, and even set a sound notice.

You could always put sounds when you receive party chat. Helps alot and in all honesty there should be a quest to do this (we got emotion quests, so why not something so trivial and yet so useful)

Ok.. New one... for me anyway.
Had an FC Member (and Cousin who was sat Next too me) Join a Stone Vigil that had a tank (Paladin, iLevel 94-95 from my Estimate) that instantly DCed re-joined DCed and Wanted too be Kicked then Refused too tank on the Basis that and i Quote "You Guys will get XP" 90 Minutes Later (Everyone Except the Tank was on the Same Server and said the Same, "You want out, you Eat the Penalty") the Dungeon Ended and everyone Re-joined with a New Tank.

Is this Common? Or Was he Just a Douche?

Let me get this straight..... the tank was an a-hat that didnt want you getting xp?

(Love that i need to edit my sentence to write more.. really loving it)

[YanDere]

btw against Aiatar there's no need to remove poison, you can heal it easily even with 4 stacks (which is the maximum you get in a normal run)

[Necato]

Sure, experienced and well-geared tanks can simply pull the mobs and still keep hate on all of them while the DPS does whatever with them.

Not always ^^
Did a few "Expert roulette" this weekend, ended up with a BLM, a DRG and a WHM in Brayflox. That was the toughest run I've ever made as a PLD. The BLM did 3 flares in less than 20seconds while the DRG was focusing one single ennemy. The WHM spammed Holy as usual.
I spammed Flash like a crazy, ran out of MP and starting the Halone combo on DRG's target to be sure he won't get hate (but it died before I finished it). A few seconds later... I saw "Holy" and "Flare" on the cast bars and was like "Oh Gods help me now !". Lost 3 targets but luckily they died shortly after.
That was the first time I was scared that I would be flamed by the 3 other members, I lost hate on several ennemies I was ready to be kicked instead they just apologize for the fireworks. Got 3 commendations on that run

A good result for a stressful run but obviously if a DPS wants the hate he will have it.

[Synestr]

NICE!! I like those runs. Where BLM grabs the whorde in 2-3 flare, heck I like being that BLM. It makes you work, keeps it interesting.

Nice job!

Syn

[Ringabell]

Not always ^^
Did a few "Expert roulette" this weekend, ended up with a BLM, a DRG and a WHM in Brayflox. That was the toughest run I've ever made as a PLD. The BLM did 3 flares in less than 20seconds while the DRG was focusing one single ennemy. The WHM spammed Holy as usual.

I suddenly feel the urge to apologize on behalf of everyone who mains BLM.

Our bad.

[Synestr]

I suddenly feel the urge to apologize on behalf of everyone who mains BLM.

Our bad.

Deep down though, we are grinning... ^.^

"Yea, I blew that s**t up"

Syn