Quote Originally Posted by Eothas View Post
I'm sorry, but I feel that I have much more control of the fight as a healer. I can fix other players mistakes (Not talking about savage, but I'm sure most here arent aswell), I can cast shields on the newbie that I know will eat unnecessary damage, I can push DPS, I can keep the bad tank alive with good use of CDs most of the time. As a tank you will just feel impotent with a bad party, you will do DPS and move the mobs/boss where you please, after that you can just pray that your party is good enough.
Sorry to quote you out here, Eothas, but you're the one who said what tends to annoy me the most.
When a player is playing badly, and another covers for them, without telling them they're covering for them, it just breeds more bad play.

There are a LOT of tanks out there whom are 'bad' cause of a healer who kept them up through it all thinking that it won't do anything. But it does the worst thing anyone can do for them; Give them an overinflated sense of themselves.
And I know this because I'll run on my healing classes, running into one of these tanks. I'll kindly explain what they're doing wrong to take so much extra damage (A lot of the time, it's simply letting things attack their back where they CANNOT dodge, parry or block when applicable. Thus I'll say something like "Please try to keep everything in front. You sadly cannot dodge, parry or block from behind. So anything behind you is getting free full hits on you." See, kind!) and they'll round on me with "None of my other healers had a problem. You just suck. Heal better!"

No. No. That's not me sucking as a healer. That's you, as a tank, being shown by other healers that it's all right to play badly. =.=
Though, about 50-75% of the time, the tank's new, will take what I say and be like "Oh, didn't know. Thanks!" But there is still that 25-50% whom are just ignoring it, thinking they're actually good because of "nice" players who'll cover their bad play up for them...

And it's THAT group of tanks that make other players think tanks are bad. Someone gets enough of these 'pampered' tanks, and suddenly they're immediately judging every single tank.
A tank then gets that person... and I think everyone suddenly understands why the good tanks get so pissed off when they're judged the moment they enter an instance. >.<