Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[Ebonwings]

Second run was in M4, and this was a true mess to deal with. The other tank was beyond special.

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I enjoy both your tanking horror stories, Februs. I'll noted to myself that the maxing vul stack for M2 second boss is 9, since I got 7 last time I did it sincce the MT got d/c and died due to tankbuster. While on M4, I soloed the boss from start to end. xD OT didn't soak Double Rocket Punch with me so I took it straight to the face and every time that happened, it made me feel so alive!

[HoodRat]

So there I was, running A1N in df. I was one unidentified bone away from getting my 210 relic and turning it into the 230 relic. I was in queue for an abnormally long 56 minutes before I got in. I see my co-tank has an enormously high 14k hp...rip. He says he's new, which I had already figured, and I'm just like "no worries." There was also a mch that was new but it was okay, everyone else had cleared before should be a breeze. The Faust pull proved me wrong though. We wiped...on Faust...in A1N...but i guess dots killed it. And then I realized: he had grit on the ENTIRE time. I'm like okay, it doesn't really matter I can hold aggro even without grit. Anyway, we get to the Oppressor, I tel my co-tank that the 0.5 will spawn in the north and just provoke it and keep it there when it spawns. So...the first set of alarums spawn and he provokes the Oppressor off me. I say to myself, "okay just a small hiccup I'll provoke the 0.5 then." So when the 0.5 spawns, I provoke it and try to pull it south since he's north with the Oppressor. Suddenly, he provokes the 0.5 off me while still tanking the Oppressor. I get the 0.5 back off him (they have about 2 stacks at this point) and pull it back south. He decides he needs to tank the Oppressor square in the middle and before i know it they both have 10 stacks and my co-tank is dead. I'm like okay, time for beast mode, I pop a CD so it's a little easier on them and BAM I died because I didn't get a single heal. So...that pull ends in a wipe. I'm just like "okay, obviously he doesn't really know what to do." But no worries, should only take a minute or two to explain in detail." And then it happened. Someone blamed the wipe on me for "not pulling the Oppressor 0.5." I'm just like, "oh hell no." So I stood at the beginning until 15 minutes went by and hit vote abandon, it goes through and I continue to cry to my friends about how not doing the 210 relic back when it was a thing was the worst life decision I had ever made.

[Februs]

I enjoy both your tanking horror stories, Februs. I'll noted to myself that the maxing vul stack for M2 second boss is 9, since I got 7 last time I did it sincce the MT got d/c and died due to tankbuster. While on M4, I soloed the boss from start to end. xD OT didn't soak Double Rocket Punch with me so I took it straight to the face and every time that happened, it made me feel so alive!

It's exciting to solo things that aren't supposed to be solo'd, isn't it? lol.

Since I posted that story, I've actually gone beyond 9 stacks in that fight. It happened only a few days later. This time, the other tank literally ignored every OT job he should have been doing. He wasn't new. He just didn't seem to care. I got all the way up to 5 stacks before someone else (aside from me) started to yell at him in the chat box, and he still didn't voke the boss. He ended up dying by eating too many mirages and standing in stupid, and I'm pretty sure the healers let him die out of spite or because they were too busy trying to keep me alive. They did offer him a raise, but he ignored it. I was kind of hoping he would get up and pitch in by the time I got to 8 stacks, but he decided to just stay dead on the floor for the rest of the fight. Meanwhile, I'm got up to 10 stacks of vulnerability, completely burned ALL of my cool downs, and was waiting for the inevitable death on the next Tank Buster. Thankfully the Dps managed to burn the boss before he killed me, but I still had to wait for all that vulnerability to fall off before I pulled the next boss. One of the healers made a comment about how "10 stacks is impressive." I would have loved to take all the credit, but I can say for certain that if the Dps had been a little slower, or the healers a little weaker, I would not have made it to the end.

The other tank did, eventually, accept his raise so he could join in for the next fight, but he might as well stayed on the ground. He didn't do anything for the entire run. He made one, piss poor, attempt at voking the final boss off of me (while still in sword oath), but he wasn't fooling anyone. We all knew he was there for the carry (frankly, we should have vote-kicked him). Thanks to that, though, I can now say that I have solo tanked the entirety of the Midas raid from M1 to M4 without an off tank. Every Fight. Every boss. All by myself, and long before I was geared for it. I say that partly with pride ... and partly with a morbid sense of self-pity.

[Februs]

So there I was, running A1N in df. I was one unidentified bone away from getting my 210 relic and turning it into the 230 relic.

^This was your problem right here. It's moments exactly like these in which the game gods chose to screw with you, just because they can. It made me chuckle, because I'm pretty sure we've all been in similar situations.

The worst part is definitely getting blamed for things you didn't do, or when it's not your fault. Every tank has been there. The most recent situation for me was back during my Thordan Ex runs. I kept getting into PF groups with one specific person who seemed devoutly invested in blaming me for everything that went wrong, even when I very clearly was not the one who did it. The most memorable instance was standing in a conviction tower, waiting for it to go off, getting hit with it, and then getting blamed for not standing in a tower and paralyzing the group. That one kind of blew my mind a little bit, especially since the actual hit came from the polar opposite side of the arena from the tower I was standing in, which I had been standing in the entire time.

[Ragnorak]

Void Ark on reset day... Couldn't even get past the trash without wiping... I'm done with people in this game

[Yuni_Queen]

Alexander floor 3.

Beautiful day for express-farming precision gordian parts for 210 relic in a peak of hype. Yuni goes auto-MT to do not waste time on communication. We clear trash and proceed to boss section, insta-pull with 10 sec warning used when we were descending to boss section.
2 Power Slashes and Yuni drops Grit for additional dps boost.
<Horror music intesifies>
And then after 2 sec I hear <se.10> x 3 and healers using macro:
"No Grit/Defiance/Shield Oath - no heal! Use tank stance!"
"I will not heal tank not using tank stance"

Wipe in 30 sec.
3 dps leaving instantly just after reviving. Yuni curses the twelve for uber-scrub healers.

Note:
I didn't even have time to give them any reason to believe i can't use cooldowns properly.

From that moment i am scared of healers. And i don't trust them.

[Nekotee]

Well big thumb up for this healer for this awesome macro (i should take it and adapt it for defensive cooldown)

Well there is good and bad in both side
If you did not tell the healer you would drop grit, it's your fault if you're dead.
The healer is not forced to be here to help you if you're being risky. His job is not to spam heal but only to keep you alive
Dropping grit mean he have to be more vigilant of your Cute Ass, it's more focus on health bar.
No warning and you could have died because he was pushing his own DPS.

But it's kind of means to instantly stop healing without warning.
I usually ask nicely one time as healer, if the tank is a Dick. Then i will show him that healer rules and peoples follow...

So I would said that the worst are the DPS...
Miscommunication happends leaving for 1 fault is not a good attitude.

[Ragnorak]

From that moment i am scared of healers. And i don't trust them.

Yeah DF healers can be pretty cancerous. Protip for all you tanks out there getcha a good healer to run with. Its dangerous out there. And I have absolutely zero trust in a df healer

[Seipheris]

Thornmarch on Hard.

Our DPS was phoning it in, no focus, no correct order of adds killed.

We wiped to Momento Moogle. As MT, I pointed out that all the Moogles but the WAR needed to die ASAP, while one of the DPS was trolling by saying to leave them all with no health.

Rinse and repeat for 3 attempts before we end it. Had to down the boss with another group, wasn't even hard.

[Ebonwings]

Ok here's another tanking horror which happened last M4 run which made me question my tanking skill...When Brute Justice showed up and did his raid wide aoe, I shield lob him, he still targeted my WHM, I provoked and rage of halone him, he still target WHM ( when I watched my status bar there were medica II and regen on me), did his tank buster to the party. We wiped 3 times to this....I never had any problem with any other WHM before.

Now here's the question, am I a bad tank or is Brute justice aggro on WHM because of the regen and medica II ticked after I provoked him the first time he targeting that WHM? Should I wait for that WHM to use medica 2 and regen after the aoe first before I provoke?