Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[Syzygian]

I've always admired the one on the healer forums. Felt like we needed one too.

...for the times when that DPS decided to ruin your glorious AoE speed-run pull that would have otherwise been a particle-effect-laden work of art, by cherry picking that one mob to be their BFF of Eternal Bonding...

...and the times when your OT decides to stay in tank stance and make Provoke a regular part of their rotation...

...and of course, for every time your healer is afk eating sammich...

[Jamillion]

I had a void ark Sunday with a full fending pally that tried to MT over me until the snake split, then failed to grab his snake and take it to the waypoint, THEN followed me when I took my snake to his waypoint, resulting in a quick wipe followed by his dismissal.

[Ragnorak]

Running Pharos HM with my healer and getting ice mages on big pulls :')

[RecklessLion]

Ravana EX nuff said

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

I caught my healer auto following me once (was in a leveling dungeon). Took me a moment to notice it, but i was weirded out by their proximity to me on one mob pull. Went to the next mob, saw the same thing, but thanks to focus target, I noticed my healer wasn't actually doing anything, Eos was doing the work. So naturally after that mob, i ran around in a circle watching the healer do the same while the two DPS just kinda stared. About a minute later, the healer stopped following me, and I welcomed him back to the game and asked that he participate the remainder of the trip.

[bounddreamer]

I have so many... Okay, everyone know Snowcloak? Takes about 20, 25 min if everyone meets even min gear levels around i90 or i100 or so?

I queued for a 50 roulette back when it was still Hard roulette and oh my god. Healer let me die on the first pull and dps was slooooooow. The second boss took forever despite me turning every spriggan into snowballs bc I don't know why. We got to the final pull before the boss and wiped because heals were low and dps was slow.

Then we got to Fenrir. And wiped. And wiped. And wiped. I'm not kidding, it was four or five wipes. I started to think they were trolling me. The dps kept dying because they'd get frozen by Fenrir, even after I explained mechanics and they saw what mechanics were. I'd hide behind a stalactite, jump up and down, shout STACK in chat...they just couldn't do it. At one point one of the dps switched her connection to her phone Hotspot so it would be better bc she blamed lag for not being able to hide but it didn't seem to make much of a difference.

I thought it was going to be a failure, we got the timer warning, but ultimately managed to clear it somehow. I wished I'd dropped after that first wipe. I could have done three roulettes in the time it took me to do that one.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

This one time, in Aurum Vale....( I expect many stories from this particular dungeon)

My Raid Co-Tank, decided to surprise our FC by levelling his WHM, so we formed up and hit here because we had 1 dps still leveling, but we all decided this would be the best place to challenge his abilities. Being his best friend, I naturally made the first pull intentionally hard. We wiped, we giggled and then we attempted to proceed as normal, and with caution. After barely surviving the third attempt to get through the first room, we wipe on the first boss twice because I had to move out of his range to walk the 10 yalms and eat a fruit.... The rest of the dungeon went better, but we hit the 10 minute warning just before the final boss of the dungeon, and managed to get the clear before being timed out.

For several months, anytime anyone in our FC needed to be put back in line, my co-tank's healing prowess would be threatened to be unleashed upon their next dungeon.

[Februs]

I got a good one. This happened just last night while I was running my Trial Roulette. I get into Steps of Faith (joy).

One person says, "I'm new here." I think, "no big deal. We'll get bonus." I ask the tank if he/she wants to Tank or do cannons. He/she say "well, tank." I check their gear out. They're obviously still leveling their Pld, but they're it's not awful. I get to be lazy and head off to a cannon.

Pld starts the fight. Mobs come out. Pld pulls mobs. Pld pulls mobs to the ass end of the dragon... and stays there. The Dps (all of them) stay with the Pld and attack the mobs. The only person doing Dmg to the dragon is me on my cannon. The other cannon is empty. I ask, "what the hell are you guys doing?" No one answers. I end up doing ALL the mechs by myself and have to sprint between both snares to get em, but the Dps are still not attacking the dragon and the adds have added up because they're not dying to cannon fire. Half the party gets themselves killed by the adds, and eventually the dragon beats down the door.

Reset.

I say, "alright, how many of you are new?" They start sounding off, one after the other, ALL SEVEN OF THEM. I couldn't believe it. I get into explaining the mechs. Pld pulls again before I'm done, so no one is doing the Dragon Killers. Run goes smoother, but the Pld is still having trouble pulling mobs to the front of the dragon for cannon fire. I would have swapped with them, but no one else knew how or when to use the snares. In the end, they couldn't meet the Dps check so we wipe a second time.

I do more explaining, and we cleared on the third attempt. Honestly though, if it wasn't for one summoner stepping up and asking me to explain the Dragon Killer mechs to them (I basically ended up micro-managing their movements by telling them when to climb the tower and when to hit the button via call-outs) that group would have never cleared.

More than anything, I just couldn't believe that all 7 of them were totally fresh players who had never been there before. I mean, what are the odds of that?? I wish I could have that kind of luck with the lottery ....

[AI_wass]

Dzemael Darkhold. Run goes smoothly for the most part. We get past the first boss, skip the lower level with the orobons, and proceed into the tunnel area. I line-of-sight the soul behind a little rock, past the exploding crystal, and then the shit hits the fan.

Apparently, the orobons teleported ahead of us. They came up behind me, aggroed onto me as I was dodging an AOE, and stacked vulnerability. We wipe.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Full vit, Full-time Defiance Warrior, Slow pulling all of Arboetum, with marks, with 2 smn's and a sch. 45 minutes of my life I will never get back.