To all 3.0 Tanks

[MidnightS]

Not jewelry.

Well, technically that's "of Slaying" gear, but I digress. ;p

[Jamez82]

I only pull like that when I'm with my friends cause I know they can handle it.

Those who do it with random DF's are crazy and just looking for a fight.

Most I meet in DF are low on dps, terrible on healing, and just plain ignore the important mechanics.

[Skypirate]

I only pull like that when I'm with my friends cause I know they can handle it.

Those who do it with random DF's are crazy and just looking for a fight.

Most I meet in DF are low on dps, terrible on healing, and just plain ignore the important mechanics.

Yeah that's pretty much How i was on that pull I linked. I Was partied with my friends and it was my first time in that dungeon and they assured me that I would be fine pulling the next pull LOL. So I grabbed the Juggernaut without popping any buffs. Ofc I know now that I need to be more cautious but I would never goof around like that with Randoms.

[nuyu11]

I'm not sure about big pull.. 3.0 just started and all gear still new and not high tier yet.

[KisaiTenshi]

To all 3.0 Healers:

Please do not suddenly go afk without a warning ...

Who the hell goes AFK during a fight? There are stupid tanks that chain pull (never do this), failing to kill the last mob before moving on, thus the mob follows the tank, and the healer and DPS are still in combat mode so their HP and MP/TP doesn't recover. There are dozens if not hundreds of threads on the healer forum that pinpoint stupid things that tanks do, and this is at the top of the list next to "doesn't know how to use cooldowns"

Wait for the healer to show they are ready before you move (eg re-casting stoneskin, or simply having you targeted), or you will be the one blamed for wiping on trash. I'd say 80% of tanks don't even wait for stoneskin, even if the healer is capable of doing swiftcast-stoneskin II. So because the tank was impatient they're the only one without the buff.

If you're going to halfass speedpull, pull all the mobs to a point, and completely stop, that signals the healer that you're going to engage the mobs. If you backtrack or go around a corner without the healer having line of sight, you are going to wipe.

[Catwho]

Speed run while lvl synced on dungeons under lv 49 and above 51 with the exception of lv 60 dungeon, isn't a very good idea.

Well, it depends. For my lowbie dungeon roulette on SCH today, I was put in Sastasha story mode with a DRK. The DRK and I glanced at each other's gear and HP, and both went GLEE!!!!

I told him to pull as much as he wanted. We were done in 15 minutes. That was fun.

(I also told the newbie lancer that what he was experiencing right now was probably not something to ever expect again.)

[Cyrus-Wallace]

WHAT? PULL MORE? OK.

[Superskull85]

At the same time don't ask for big pulls if you can't actually handle big pulls either.

[Eidolon]

Well, technically that's "of Slaying" gear, but I digress. ;p

The first set of Coil drops were shared, though they were Striking/Maiming alike.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/1d4e2d3f761/

The Philosophy(Our very first tomes) tomestone gear was likewise the same
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Da...ker_of_Maiming

The Mythology (Our very first WEEKY LOCKED tomes) tomestone gear was the first deviation, giving only "Slaying"
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/He...ace_of_Slaying

Gear introduced after that became "OF slaying", so calling accessories "Of striking" or "Of maiming" or "Of slaying" is as interchangable as it can get.

[Odstarva]

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I've always tanked in FFXIV and I've always followed most (if not all) of what you wrote, but I never even had to "think" about those things. And where I'm going with this is that recently I started leveling a healer and I am genuinely astonished by how bad some tanks can be. After all since I played only the Paladin / Dark Knight I never had the chance to see how other's do their business in single parties... boy there are some bad tanks out there.

And reading from your link, I'm not sure if I feel better or worse that this has always been a thing. I'd say that about a third of the times I go on DF I get good tanks, but then I've witnessed things that I do not understand... The worst as some have mentioned are the DPS-in-disguise Dark Knights... Going in without Dark Arts (in essence cutting their skills in half and halving their own dps), not using their defensive cool-downs... Though to be fair I see tanks not using CDs in every class.


Some of them save everything for the boss and use it all in one go. What the hell.


Edit: On an aditional note, now that I play a healer I also noticed how bad some of them are! Spamming cure or the class-equivelant, not applying dots on enemies, not buffing, not curing status-effects...