Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[Donjo]

During a rather large pull in a dungeon, I hear the healer say this in voice chat:

"Crap, I just hit Cleric Stance. Use Hallowed if you have it!"

...This is what I get for queuing with a drunk healer XD

[MD5Ray01]

Posted this one in Tales from the Duty Finder a while back, but it's a kind-of horror story, so I'll post it again:
Was leveling up DRK. Fire up DF Leveling Roulette and get Halatali. The run was going pretty good until midway, when the thaumaturge decided to start pulling everything left and right. I politely ask him to let me deal with pulling the mobs, with no response and continued mob pulling from said THM. The others ask the same thing: no response other than the THM continuing to pull mobs. Finally, someone initiated a vote kick against the THM (I can't remember what the reason was, though). The vote went through, THM got kicked, and a BRD joined us for the rest of the dungeon. I wished I could have given commendations to both the healer and the Rogue for their patience in dealing with the THM.

[Yeol]

This one run had very low dps! Extremely low!
Me: WAR
Healer: AST
DD: Monk, Bard
I then noticed Bard was not using WM, and he was level 60 Bard.. (I main Bard myself) I thought maybe he just did levelling and forgot to turn it back on, it happens so I remind him but he ignores me completely -___-
That run was hell.. burned healers MP and my MP & TP.

[Fernosaur]

Just had a Warrior OT in Trials Roulette spam Butcher's Block combo without ever putting Storm's Eye and/or Path up. Still not sure if she was trying to fight for enmity or just didn't know those skills are what makes Warrior a good OT in comparison to Dark Knight...

[Dement]

I queued for my Expert Roullette and the queue took almost 2 and a half minutes to pop. I didn't even know what to do with myself during that eternity.

[Fernosaur]

I queued for my Expert Roullette and the queue took almost 2 and a half minutes to pop. I didn't even know what to do with myself during that eternity.

Hahahahahahahaha we totally are the spoiled brats of queue times aren't we. The other day I threw a tantrum and cancelled a queue because it took FIVE MINUTES.

[Februs]

Not really a horror story so much as an annoyance, but the new Nidhogg trial tested my patience with my party members.

At this point, I'm used to Dps who have achieved the Grand Master rank at standing in stupid, but my first run was just ridiculous. Some of these mechanics have been in the game since the original three primals, for crying out loud! How is it possible for someone to not know how to dodge a Titan Plume this far into the game? Kiting ground AoE's out of the party? It's not like we haven't done that one in 5 or 6 Trials and raids. Even the "newer" mechanics couldn't have been easier to spot. We've done, what? Two or three fights now that have the giant, blinking, yellow arrows which practically scream "STACK UP RIGHT HERE!" Yet people don't recognize the marker? How did these people even get to Nidhogg without seeing this at least once?

The worst part, though ... the absolute worst part, is when you get some cheeky dps d***head who has the balls to ask why the tanks aren't picking up the middle add and fails to dodge ANY of its easily avoidable attacks. Are you serious?? Did you never once run Stone Vigil HM? Even if, by some miracle, you didn't know that this add has no enmity table, how is it possible for you to not recognize it's attacks!? That add has been in 2 dungeons, is a treasure chest monster, and is an open world monster outside of Zenith, and NEVER ONCE has he shown up in a form in which he can not be dodged. In all seriousness, it wasn't that bad. It's just that it's a little flabbergasting to see people this far in the game who are so devoid of the basics that it's a wonder they ever made it past 2.5.

There was one good thing that came out of that run, though. When that idiot dps made a comment about add aggro, both the healers came to the tank's defense with a vengeance. That was nice to see. I couldn't help but laugh at the poor guy, because that little lalafel astro ripped his way so far up that bard's ass that he could have made himself a nest in there...

[Anienai]

I queued for my Expert Roullette and the queue took almost 2 and a half minutes to pop. I didn't even know what to do with myself during that eternity.

People can't relate to our 1st world problems.

/FEMROE TANK HUG

[Khalithar]

I have a new one to add that just happened to me the other day. In sohr kai with a level 60 drg who only used their jumps, Blood for Blood, Heavy Thrust, True Thrust, and Impulse Drive. That's it, at level 60. Nothing else. After I asked them what they were doing and pointed out they're playing completely wrong, they told me no one ever said anything about them playing wrong and they never had issues doing that. We get to the horse boss and after two attempts where the boss was 80%+ with no gravestones left I quit the party and stopped playing for the rest of the night cause I was way too irritated.

[Iracy]

1/2

A healer who felt "generous" enough to run around and pull MORE mobs, while there's already 7 on me, with no BLM in party. Healer dies, while on her way back to party. I manage to self-sustain myself til 2 mobs are left, then I die. DPS manage to kill the last 2. The healer starts complaining at how shit I am at tank.

Then I got votekicked. Why? I don't know.

Same day, I get qued with that same healer again, she suddenly starts apologizing. I guess they didn't find another Tank for the dungeon and were stranded. "At least she realizes her mistakes" I think to myself and forgive her.
5 mins into the dungeon, she does the same crap, this time we have 2 BLM tho.

And funny enough, both BLM call her "garbage" and "idiotic" for pulling and dying.
Then she starts blaming me for not tanking all.