Pro tip: Tell me you're new to a dungeon /rant

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Oh boy the Sh*t Really hit the fan with this forum post. I pretty much only tank in this game and rarely have any problems with groups. You do not need to know if someone is new because as the tank you should be looking at the gear of at least the healer and making an estimation of what the pace of the run should be, the second thing is to look at what dps you have, is there a black mage, or at least 2 jobs that can push out good aoe dmg. If your going to slow, the group will let you know, this does not count when its one person out of the group unless its the healer then its up to you.

As a tank Speed running because your farming Zodiac, for example isn't an excuse to force speed runs or even a pace that the group cannot handle, your only gonna make the run longer anyway if you wipe. I've had to run allot of dungeons yesterday with lowered geared groups and well geared ones. None of the runs where slow and none of them had wipes on trash. i'm pretty much a silent tank, listen to bgm music on youtube or itunes so i'll use that as proof you do not need to communicate if you do your job properly.

As for my viewpoint on NyarikoW I can sympathise to certain degree but what you are doing is reportable and at least would be suitable grounds to vote kick (you are grieving). If the tank is a Dbag and speed runs, when the group is not able to do so, then play your job and wait for them to fail, this includes not accounting for dps and healers output/mana etc.when the tank dies, probably rages and blames healer or group. Turn the tables on them and vote kick them, report them if needed.Thats how you handle this situation in my opinion.Its not great solution because most tanks don't care about lockout with the short to instant queue times but theres not much that can be done. If you think just because your a healer that you won't get vote kicked think again i've seen many healers get the boot when lvling my DD.

For every good tank there a 100 bad, if its more correct that