Please Consider Helping New Players

[Sho86]

When the game first started I was learning my job just like dps and healers are learning their jobs, sometimes dps do things intentionally to make tanks look bad. How so? Let's say we mark targets in attack order. Why are you attacking 3 and I'm on 1.

I still see this all the time, and it drives me nuts. As DPS if there are no marks, yeah I'll go nuts as apparently thats their intention; but if I see an order I follow it, its not hard. Not like two days ago I was tanking snowcloak and still getting a grip on the dungeon, so I was marking mobs to make the run as smooth as possible. Yet here comes NIN hotshot going straight for 2 with full burst, then 4, then 3 and so forth - even going as far as to start pulling for me once (which he apparently got the message when I didn't grab hate off what he pulled). I just sit back and ask 'why?' to myself.

I mean really, not only are you making it harder for the tank to do their job, you're making your own run that much slower by causing chaos. So between acts like that and the already mentioned verbal abuse people throw out, its no wonder we're hurting for tanks. People give it a shot and then get beatdown by the community. I don't give up PLD because it was my fav job in XI, but I can't play it nearly as much as I like before I just get tired of dealing with the people. It shouldn't take resorting to FC only parties to want a decent run, and by decent I mean cooperation among the party. It sure as hell didn't back in XI, though maybe because we actually had something to lose in XI also.