Patience as a Tank

[Bubba_Drunk]

Trying like mad to break into tanking myself, wanted to for YEARS. Yes its a pain; you're under scrutiny all the time and never get the credit bad DDs do, I consider some tanks to actually be masochistic, but respected none-the-less. Props to those who can deal with the crap with a smile though.

I main heals, always have, I never understood healers who go off on tangents about how bad players can be, to me its probably the easiest class (may just be the experience talking, hell I dunno).

Good players are good, bads are bad, get over it and enjoy the game I say.

Took a break since 2.5, appearently I didn't miss much hahah.

[Sarynth]

Trying like mad to break into tanking myself, wanted to for YEARS. Yes its a pain; you\\'re under scrutiny all the time and never get the credit bad DDs do, I consider some tanks to actually be masochistic, but respected none-the-less. Props to those who can deal with the crap with a smile though.

I main heals, always have, I never understood healers who go off on tangents about how bad players can be, to me its probably the easiest class (may just be the experience talking, hell I dunno).

Good players are good, bads are bad, get over it and enjoy the game I say.

Took a break since 2.5, appearently I didn\\'t miss much hahah.

I'm totally one of those masochistic tanks you mentioned. Record damage for sephirot ex was 300k when I took both but stomps after the party had already wiped :3 on topic though I main drk and absolutely love it, and it's fun to try the other tow to see the different playstyles.

[Gameplayzero]

I main heals, always have, I never understood healers who go off on tangents about how bad players can be.

because you have to deal with peoples mistakes a lot more as a healer than a tank. I think people underestimate how much the healer does for the party. If you have a bad tank (unless they pull more than their limits) healers can carry them. Dps constantly keeps ripping aggro? Just a tank problem mostly right? No because healer now has to heal dps who got cleaved along side of everyone else if boss aoes. Hell even sometimes dps can just tank it if healer is on it. Mechanics not done? Healer has to clean up the mess. Yes tank have problems too, but not quite on the same lvl as heals. Most of the problems that happen tanks really can't help out aside from aggro, dpsing, and maybe support (paladin). It falls on the healer.

Especially if you are trying to dps on top of it, rather than just afk netflix heal.

[Nezkeys79]

Dps constantly keeps ripping aggro? Just a tank problem mostly right?

I like how you made it sound like it almost has to be the fault of the tank as the precedence. You can have the best tank in the world who knows his job inside out but if you have a dps in the dungeon (especially lower level dungeons) who doesn't understand enmity at all and has no clue how to control their threat generation...that good tank can be made to look bad in a DF. All it takes is two more band wagon retards to agree with a "ffs where I come from tanks tank. You cant hold aggro you're a shit tank so just quit" comment. That good tank could defend themselves and most likely would get vote kicked in that instance of 3 retard bandwagoners