Post Your Healing Horror Stories.

[SamAkemi]

So... I was levelling yet another dps job, and almost came completely undone in the game altogether being absolutely sick and tired of tanks that couldn't tank, always happy to help them out, as we run an fc with tonnes of tanks that we have literally trained by taking in our top dps and attempting to pull off them, teaching them how to keep the aggro, needless to say, its a lot of fun and worth the work. But this one particular day, Id just had enough, after spending 1.5 hours in a Sunken Temple norm teaching a tank the very basic "how to pull". Didnt know what an enmity list was or where to find it, didnt have shield lob on his bar NOR Provoke.... so we taught him all that, happy to spend the time even though we just wanted to get the xp and get out.
And so it continued on for the rest of the day... one tank after the other until the last straw was a pally entering Stone Vigil, no job quest done, still Gladiator, so no Shield Oath either and low level gear. I asked him why he hadnt done his job quests...No response... Wipe 1, wipe 2, wipe 3....asked him again pointing out the obvious as to why the healer cannot keep him up and of course that the healer keeps getting interrupted - healing aggro - mobs etc etc etc.

So I just logged off, rather distraught that it seems that just anyone can just decide they wanna roll a tank and thats where it stops. No understanding whatsoever of the why or how, and whats worse... no research in to it. So, I thought Id be part of the solution, having been main tanking FCOB on one of my mains and raid healing on another main in another raid team....so I started...

THE TANK PROJECT
----> How To Tank 101

Feel free to refer a pally to that if you encounter someone who does not know how to tank on a pally.

Warrior is coming, although I havent encountered too much of an issue with warriors, I shall do one anyway.

So basically, if you encounter failing tanks... take 5 min break while they read that so you dont waste time explaining it all... hope it helps XD

[Noxifer]

THE TANK PROJECT
----> How To Tank 101

Feel free to refer a pally to that if you encounter someone who does not know how to tank on a pally.

Ehrm.... I'd like to point out that you say that Orange means "almost lose aggro" and Green means "you lost it". No. At Orange, you've already lost it. Go chase it back. Green.... means you've got a snowballs chance in hell to get it back if it's not the start of the fight and if Provoke's out of sorts (either due to cooldown or immunity)

But other than that, it looks good at first glance ^^