Quote Originally Posted by Kumabear76 View Post
While I certainly can't speak for everyone, what I have noticed is that many of the "tanks" in PUG's these days don't main as Tanks. A lot of us who do main tanks have become rather burned out by how the community treats us. Many are tired of always being forced to speed run, or other players not bothering to work together, or just outright blaming us for their screw-ups. We all screw-up. but slinging blame doesn't help.
Forced to speed run? Dear lord, why would you ever NOT want to speed run? Tanking dungeon trash pack by pack is quite possibly the most boring form of tanking in this game. In the extremely rare cases where I'm asked to pull more slowly, I've sometimes gone so far as to play a second game on my computer just to keep myself occupied.

Heaping mobs as far as you can safely go, gauging the ability of your healer and your DPS to keep pace - outside of Coil and a few Ex Primals, that's really the only time a tank really feels ALIVE.

I speed pull for my own enjoyment. That it benefits others is a pleasant bonus.

As for tanks being treated poorly, that's rarely been my personal experience, both as a tank and also as DPS or Healer in parties with other tanks. It saddens me that other tanks haven't been so fortunate. Actually, to be perfectly honest, my gaming experience in general hasn't been nearly as rife with toxicity as these forums seem to imply it should be; I think it's one of those cases where good news makes bad press: no one comes to the forums to whine about what a great run they just had. Sure, I've met some bad eggs in my time, but for the most part people is people, and people ain't bad.