Quote Originally Posted by LegoTechnic View Post
More than likely his complaint was that he couldn't SEE the orange AoE effects underneath the Blizzard II graphic spam, not that you were causing more of them, and he was getting hit by some of them. It probably annoyed him because he wasn't used to having to spot around the massive ice cluster, and might not have been in the mood for new stuff in rank-and-file content.

Sure he could have turned off spell effects, but he shouldn't have had to. Regardless you did what you should have in this particular DF, and that's refrain while still keeping up to your best, and if nothing else at least he gave it a while before he decided he couldn't deal with it.

So no, the tank probably wasn't great, but this went down pretty decently by duty finder standards.
After giving myself the day to mull over this (I'm a fairly anxiety-and-depression prone guy, by the way), I came to the same conclusion as you did. That's part why I ditched most of my AoE abilities in favor of just finishing the run.

This leaves so many holes though:

1. As I said, regardless of Blizzard II's effect, if I had to dodge stuff, he had to as well. Not once did I see either of our HP bars dip drastically to the point where the healer had to rescue anyone.
2. You said it yourself, there's options to turn off spell effects in case there's doubts. This tank had every job leveled to 60, so to argue he shouldn't have had to is confusing. It's not like he had no idea Blizzard II existed.
3. He was tanking just fine, but assuming he went nuts with FATEs to get to where he did: did he seriously start shouting to everyone the area to stop spamming Circle of Scorn/Unleash/Flare/Holy/Ring of Thorns/etc. so he could dodge everything?
4. On a related note, how does he tank with melee DPS? Monks and Elixir Field, Dragoons, Ninjas and Ninjutsus... not to mention they have to be in his personal space constantly to do anything.
5. My biggest problem: he stalled at least 3 times prior to the complaint with no words. For a good 2-3 minutes each time. I highly doubt he was okay with it from the beginning. Each of those moments would've been PERFECT to say what he said (minus the omitted explicative; I'm not sure how well the forum mods deal with language), instead of blowing up and completely throwing me off my game for the rest of the instance. I was serious about little I was left using: I think I even idled several times in the middle of fights because I had no idea what to do.

None of this came up at the time, of course, and even if it had, I'm really shy not to mention I'm always for finishing the run rather than having little things turn into big things.

I appreciate the feedback, though my original concerns had to do with whether Miasma II and Blizzard II are "bad" or not. I'm going to admit most of my rotation comes from head-math and not guides or any expert advice.