share your bad experiences tanking

[Twilite]

This was as me playing NIN in a low level roulette, not tanking myself. New GLD tank in sash, pulling with shield lob, then 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, did not cast flash once. Both myself, and the healer, suggested it nicely. Continues to pull then 1-2, 1-2. After again suggestiing the use of flash, and being ignored, I just piled on DPS and tanked as NIN, swapping targets to keep them off healer, through the rest of the run. Got 2 comms at the end. I'm counting this as a bad tanking experience as a tank main, watching it was painful

You should have met the PLD I met in titan NORMAL. She only did auto-attacks..

[Deathgiver]

This was as me playing NIN in a low level roulette, not tanking myself. New GLD tank in sash, pulling with shield lob, then 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, did not cast flash once. Both myself, and the healer, suggested it nicely. Continues to pull then 1-2, 1-2. After again suggestiing the use of flash, and being ignored, I just piled on DPS and tanked as NIN, swapping targets to keep them off healer, through the rest of the run. Got 2 comms at the end. I'm counting this as a bad tanking experience as a tank main, watching it was painful

I had an almost identical run where I was healer and the NIN was PLD main. The new PLD didn't use shield lob though, he just body pulled. He did "attempt" to use flash, but he would cast it before engaging standing like 30 feet from the mobs despite repeated explanations from all 3 other people. NIN and BRD in that party kept me safe too ^^

[Sakanaboto]

I wasn't Tanking this one, but my God this other tank was just the worst. We were doing A1 and one of my friends was a tank and in the beginning he asked mt or ot? The other tank didn't respond so my friend said he'll be mt. The fight starts and the other tank wasn't picking up the adds and after we wiped THEN he decided to start talking and throughout the run he was continually bashing my friend for not knowing how to tank. I mean really!? 2nd try he tried aggro'ing Faust and getting the adds at the same time. It was a mess. We wiped of course he still kept berating my friend. We eventually made it to the Oppressor and he started nagging the DPS cause we weren't DPS'ing fast enough. Seriously what should've been a smooth run he turned it into a nightmare. I'm not sure if the guy had mental problems or was just too full of himself to own up to his mistakes. Seriously projecting your insecurities and shortcomings onto others just cause you suck are imo the worst kind of players.

[Jpec07]

I always get a little irked when the DPS decides it's their job to pull ahead of me. Especially when I'm taking the time to explain how I'm going to pull, and how we could get through certain mechanics. I don't mind groups that have trouble with mechanics. I don't mind groups that don't know what they're doing. We all started somewhere. But when players come into a dungeon with an arrogant, haughty, know-it-all attitude, I find it incredibly off-putting.

I've played most dungeons enough to where I've established rhythms for them that can get the clear in 15-25 minutes, if they'll just let me control the pacing.

Fortunately, though, most groups let me do exactly that, and are actually appreciative of my explanations and descriptions. I've had a great deal more positive experiences in this game than negatives, and would gladly take the community here over WoW or LoL or any other online game any day.

[The_Godless]

Going through Neverreap, got to the very last trash mob pull in the entire dungeon. By the time I'd died, I'd blown literally every CD in DRK's kit, including Living Dead, macro and all. Not only did the healer accuse me of not popping a single defensive cooldown for the entire fight but the bard also commented that I might need a macro for Living Dead.

Started a second character leveling PLD. I died on every boss, I died against the trash mobs, with Convalescence, Rampart, Foresight - hell, sometimes I died with all of them up. The MNK attacks whatever the hell he feels like at the time and I'm having to constantly change to stay on his target. He's made it his life's mission to use Snap Punch standing next to me, so questionable is the behavior of this lv.52 MNK. Against the final boss, he seemed determined to shove the poison pool six feet up Aiatar's ass. The MNK has the audacity to declare that the only reason we got anywhere at all was because of the mad heals.

[Kerwin]

I did a expert roulette where our scholar refused to use protect and told me to do it instead.

That should be sufficient.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

I had a BLM in my EX Roulette a few days ago that refused to cast Fire II / Flare in a trash pull of 10 mobs. It took like 7 minutes to clear it and all of my WHM friends MP to survive lol.

[Gabrielleblanc]

I got told to wear full fending gear in Vault because I needed the Parry for the last boss... who was all magic.

[AnimaS]

generally it comes in the form of an awful 2nd tank

[Whiteroom]

Oh... that's Pox, and all you have to do is LoS it. Rot is from T2. xD

Yeah, pox, my bad. I haven't been back there much since then. I saw a lot of bad attitudes in t4, directed at a lot of different people. Just not a happy place.

I remeber early on I was healing it. I got aggro on something that killed me. Tank left it on me and let me die. Said, don't raise them, I've been fighting their med II spam the whole time! I hadn't cast med II once, and only regen at the start of a phase once they grab aggro.