Please Consider Helping New Players

[charlemagne]

Let's say we mark targets in attack order. Why are you attacking 3 and I'm on 1.

I've done this many times. I've done it because a tank marking a target isn't always right. I've had tanks mark sleepable targets which can be left till last, reducing the amount of dmg/gear wear he has to take. I've had tanks mark the avis rather than the harrier in snowcloak etc. I've had tanks mark one of a large group of mobs when his dps are both blms, roles which excel at aoe over single target damage. As much as the rest of the team need to have respect for the tank, there are a hell of a lot of tanks out there that don't trust their dps to know their own roles or trust dps to know what to focus on or even when its safe to push the dps harder and take hate.

[Sho86]

I've done this many times. -snip-

This is not an excuse. If a certain mob is -really- that much more important to hit out of the tanks order, then take the 10 seconds to say so, so the rest of the run will be smoother. Just blindly hitting a mob out of order creates problems. If the tank can't take the criticism (assuming you took the time to do so without borderline harassment), then let the tank figure it out by dying faster and letting the heals complain. All your doing is putting undue stress on the tank trying to keep 1 up while doing the same for whatever mob your going spaz on, and also eventually putting more strain on the heals which could possibly even be doing dps themselves if extra healing wasn't needed.

The only part I agree with this post, somewhat, is the bit on BLMs. Typically tanks should know yes, but again if the don't, say something.

[charlemagne]

This is ..snip

We're talking trash mobs here, ten seconds to tell him is like five seconds longer than just killing the thing. I know which trash mobs I can safely just nuke myself before taking any damage. I'm blm so it has to reach me and then get through manawall/ward before even starting to damage me. Telling the tank his mark order is wrong once he's already steamed in is no good. If he's done it wrong and it's safe for me to fix it by nuking the right mob then I will.I'll let the tank know afterwards if the mob needed to die because it'll turn into something nasty if not prioritised ( like the harrier), I don't harass or even criticise, I just say why I did it.