People like this is why i wont tank ever again

[jamesrandal]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/71758124

Its bad enough, if you dont know the dungeons,or bosses that well. but when you get people pulling left and right its really annoying. Anyway. Back to the 30 min dps queue for me..

[SpookyGhost]

He's sort of got a point but it's lost in his messy examples.

Tanks are quite under confident most of the time I'm on DPS - they usually wait 500 years to pull anything in Lab/ST/WoD. It does get quite infuriating when you just want to get to the part where you hit the boss and all the tanks are afk.

[Eye_Gore]

Because of that? Communication needs to be upfront as to what type of run to do, mind reading isn't so easy. From his post there was no communication, off to a bad start. If it was said that the tank wasn't comfy with mass pulls and that guy did that, I would have let him die, you pull it, you own it. Communication is key.

[Zaft]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/71758124

Its bad enough, if you dont know the dungeons,or bosses that well. but when you get people pulling left and right its really annoying. Anyway. Back to the 30 min dps queue for me..

Honestly if something that minuscule triggers you, you're going to have trouble in any role. You're playing an MMO filled with autistic weeaboos who don't know the difference between constructive criticism and just shouting angrily at things. Get thicker skin and get over it.

[monochromicorn]

Ok, so this is bothering me, wtf is a weaboo? I've seen the terminology, but don't exactly know what it's supposed to mean

[AskaRay]

Weaboo is just another term for otaku but usually aimed towards Americans/Westerners anime fans, someone who likes Japanese stuff to the point of nausea..

anyway

I'm still not comfortable with big pulls. I don't even tank unless a friend is healing for me, still not that confident enough yet. If it's particularly bad, ask a friend to come with you. If other people start pulling crap ask them not to, if they keep doing it kick them. Easy.

[Kaitlen]

Tanks are quite under confident most of the time I'm on DPS - they usually wait 500 years to pull anything in Lab/ST/WoD. It does get quite infuriating when you just want to get to the part where you hit the boss and all the tanks are afk.

Hahaha.... I stopped going to 24-man raids as anything but tank. I feel better leading (most) of the raid as MT, I just saw so many bad tanks that don't want the responsibility to pull, position and hold bosses. I had one WAR in LoTA straight up say in /p chat he didn't want hate at the first dragon.

As for pulling; I admit that use ready check >50% of the time, otherwise, as long as my healers are set and I see that most of the blue and green dots on my map are in the right place, I'll pull.

I could go on...

[PetiteMalFleur]

I can see his point when most everyone is overgeared for ask the content, but yeah messy examples. It's important to understand many people enter their exp roulettes on classes they geared farming on other classes. 90% of the time the tank will run at a nice pace doing moderate pulls without any issues. Sometimes you get a tank who just doesn't enjoy doing that and goes a bit slower. Usually I'll say, "You are super easy to heal if you want to pull more," and they'll comply. If not I just go with whatever they want to do. I wouldn't purposely aggro other groups. I find that rude.

OP, not sure why this would discourage you from tanking. All of the responses he got did not agree with his behavior at all. That should at least show you where the majority stands. As a tank, if a group has someone who is as abrasive as this guy I'll take the 30 minute penalty. I think I've only done that one time though.

[myahele]

I am what you can call a "casual tank" (Tank is ilv113)

I have all job leveled up and decked out in WoD gear

I find tanking quite enjoyable every once and a while, but I don't do it often enough to be truly good at it. Luckily this doesn't happen too often since the new dungeons have gates, so mass pulling is limited.

But it is still annoying when a DPS (or healer, but thats abit more forgivable) pull without prior notification. How hard is it to say "mass pull plz?"

[Bombast]

He's sort of got a point but it's lost in his messy examples.

Tanks are quite under confident most of the time I'm on DPS - they usually wait 500 years to pull anything in Lab/ST/WoD. It does get quite infuriating when you just want to get to the part where you hit the boss and all the tanks are afk.

Most tanks wait forever because the alternative is to be smeared for 10 minutes by a dd or healer who 'lagged' and couldn't make it into the room in the 20 seconds you waited.

You really can't win as a tank for the most part.