Why does everyone blame the tank?

[RickmanUK]

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)

Pretty Much that was his Explanation.

As for why they Didn't Boot/Vote-kick him.. That's What he Wanted... Had he Actually Done the Dungeon he'd have been done in 30 Minutes. Or he Could have Left... and Been able too Roulette again in 30 Minutes. Main Reason No-one was gonna Kick him was because he Said too do it and that he Wanted out, This was Like RIGHT at the Beginning As/After the Cutscene opening it up not even after a Pull.

[RickmanUK]

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

The Aggreement was after he had his Explanation was that they All said "At this Point.. I Don't Care.. you Want out Eat your Penalty. OR Wait with us.. All we wanna do is Waste your Time now." Basically since he Pissed everyone Off they all wanted too make him wait

[DarkLordCthulhu]

For once it wasnt the tank or healers fault like it usually is. Was doing a levi ex farm for weapons over the weekend. We had one shotted levi 3 x in a row. Then all of sudden we couldnt get passed the ultimate. we died twice in a row because we didnt have enough charge on the elemental converter. our mt called out the dps for slacking.

i main SCH and alt WAR so im always getting blamed for stuff. It was weird to blame the dps for once. lowkey, it felt GOOD lol

[Ashkendor]

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

Very true; that just further proves my point. Losing aggro doesn't necessarily make you a bad tank. There's multiple reasons it could happen and everyone really does have to work together to make the party structure function. If DPS is pulling aggro despite a tank's best efforts, they need to back off a bit rather than simply berating the tank. If the tank obviously doesn't understand the basics of their class, a simple explanation is called for rather than abuse. If you're answered with "Don't tell me how to play my class!!!" that's a completely different story, though.

We did T2 a couple of days ago with a tank from my FC that we're helping out on gearing. Since T2 only needs one tank, I went on my dragoon. At the beginning of every fight with a node, he'd Tomahawk it and then the thing would start yoyoing back and forth between him and the DPS, making it really hard for the melee to actually damage it. After a couple of pulls, we realized it was always going after the same person - the bard that was opening with Raging Strikes before the tank even had aggro secured. Derrrrrrrrrrrrrp.

[MeiUshu]

I am a tank, yesterday in Haukke (I am a level 28) one of the players said I could stun, since I have nothing saying I can stun as such I asked what they told me so I tried and worked I learned that as a MRD I afterall have a stun ability...I also learned that SCH is healing better in cleric stance and has more healing power....uhmm maybe is why I kept dying ? lol.. granted I was a bit undergeared still hoping for some gears and he was a ilvl80... you think he was trolling? fact is I kept dying and got only some healing from Eos, which when you have 4-5 mobs constantly and are undergeared makes you meat for sharks.

Mei

[Aloreal]

SNIP

Mei

A troll indeed.
Just to put an input on the SCH side. all the dungeons bellow haukke can be solo healed by Eos. a sch might need to throw a physick or two, but generally that can happen and is no biggie (if he is a good scholar he will manually set some abilities to go off at boss fights as well)

reminds me when we runned halatali when i was leveling my blm and i had to heal cause healer removed all gear and replaced it for lvl 5 gear and was healing for 31 hp.

Trolls will be trolling. vote kick and replace

[LunarEmerald]

Using bane shows how bad most tanks are. You bane then watch the circles quickly turn yellow, orange then red. Because the crappy tank barely put hate on the mobs he's not focused on.

[Eye_Gore]

Using bane shows how bad most tanks are. You bane then watch the circles quickly turn yellow, orange then red. Because the crappy tank barely put hate on the mobs he's not focused on.

Well why wouldn't that happen if the tank wasn't focused on them?

[LunarEmerald]

Well why wouldn't that happen if the tank wasn't focused on them?

You don't just flash or overpower once. You continually do it. It happens because they do it once at the beginning and never again

[Eye_Gore]

You don't just flash or overpower once. You continually do it. It happens because they do it once at the beginning and never again

Understood, but, well maybe because I'm such a low level just about to go into Brayflox for the first time. I never pulled more than one mob at a time, maybe that changes in the higher level dungeons. But if pulling multiple mobs and it turns into a melee I can see why aggro would be lost. Better get my dancing shoes.