Post your tanking derps and herps here!

[Carvaka]

So, new to MMO's and picked a Tank class. Steep learning curve, reading guides, watching utube prior to runs etc... Just did Praetorium for the first time. I still don't know what happened. The group was awesome, just drilled it, no wipes. Buuuut....got lost at one stage, eventually found the magitech, was getting attacked by a lone MOB, got rid of him and met up with the main group about a 5min delay....<I'm sorry>, then managed to lock out half the group on a boss fight. Playing on Tonberry, there was quite a few Japanese symbols flashing up at quite a pace! <I'm sorry> <Im sorry> <bow>. Not sure what they said, but in my defence I did flash up <My first time here> at the start of the run!

Also, not knowing what the bard skills were and constantly running out of their circles :-) I still am not sure on them if anyone can explain!

Also, playing hero DPS-tank and going for the nail on Ifrit....Wipe.

[aisustrong]

Also, playing hero DPS-tank and going for the nail on Ifrit....Wipe.

yeah, you got your party roasted
theres a reason the tank is the only person in front of the boss

[SpookyGhost]

Also, not knowing what the bard skills were and constantly running out of their circles :-) I still am not sure on them if anyone can explain!

Bard and SMN/SCH both have an AOE DoT skill. Bard one is looks like a circle of fire, SMN/SCH one looks like half an orb of dark blue plasma.

Oh, right, NIN has one too. Big brown wind circle thing.

[SlyRoyale]

Today, I did T10 as a PLD for the first time on our static's first raid day. My derps:

1. Messed up cooldown timings for Critical Rip.
2. Messed up snap aggro on a LB2 pull.
3. Ate a couple of Electric Bursts.
4. Oh, and messed up a tank swap.

I got better after 4-5 wipes until we got our clear: got aggro on the adds easily, swapped to Sword Oath when it was safe to do so, got better at mitigating Critical Rips (which our WHM was Stoneskinn with Flatten-tier precision), and held aggro against players with iLv. 115 and 135 weapons.

Tomorrow, we'll be going into T11! I hope I don't mess up too hard!

[aisustrong]

cleared ramuh ex for first time today, we had 3(?) wipes first though (just went in df with just my statics other war)
one of those was me not getting enough orbs in time for tank swap

[FrejyaAthenes]

Was doing Haukke Manor with randoms for my roulette and after clearing the first boss I got a little overzealous and pulled every enemy along the stairs...when we only had two MNKs for DPS. We made it through...but they were not amused.

[sciondar]

A few weeks back I did a lldr and landed in Brayflox. It had been a long time since I had last did it. Get through pretty well until the final boss. Our 1st go at him I found out too late that I wasn't moving him far enough to get him out of the goop. 2nd time we smashed it.

[Ardea]

In a drunken stupor my comrades and I decided to run Ultima Weapon with no prior research. Keep in mind at this point I was foreign to the idea of tank swapping, and my buddy was also the 2nd tank. I told the guys "I got this, I'll be the mt!". I was dumbfounded when I wiped with full health after one hit, then the other tank died in a similar fashion and the party wiped. We wiped again cause I was dead from probably having a stack of 7 or 9 and we couldn't prevent the balls from touching. Luckily the third attempt I realized I was obtaining stacks and told my friend to steal hate once I got to three stacks (sounded like a good limit, similar to Aurum Vale lol). Then, believe it or not, we were successful once we realized we had to switch out! Funny thing is the healers were deciding before the start of the fight who's gonna revive who when they died after the first wipe lol

[SlyRoyale]

Today, I made two mistakes:

1) I forgot to mitigate my very first Revelation.
2) Failed getting snap aggro on a Bennu in Sword Oath, when I should've done one combo and put up Fracture on Phoenix before going back to Shield Oath, building up my combo and pick up the Bennu.

On the bright side, I am very thankful for my healers and the progress we've been making in FCoB is going well. It's sweet!

[Noxifer]

So I went with a friend who was looking for her AV and then DD relic drops... (And she was really lucky and got both of them the first time I came with her to those places o.o Maybe I'm a lucky charm?)

Forgot I got level synched and lost Defiance. Both times. In AV I realized it during the first boss when I was commenting over teamspeak to another friend that I kept verging on losing aggro to one of the dps. Then went 'oh. ehrm. I totally did not forget Defiance there...'

In DD... We came halfway to the second boss before I noticed my Defiance icon wasn't there ._. Total lack of awareness D:
And none of the others even called me out on it. Though I did apologize for my derp and proceeded to keep aggro a lot better.

(In my defense, I slept maybe three or four hours last night, and had been up for almost twelve hours since then. But still... So embarrassing D: )