Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[deastr]

He keeps doing Rage of Halone and provoke when he's got it. We finish killing Shiva and I finally say in chat, "spamming provoke doesn't make you a main tank, [name]." Bow, goodbye, exit.

Did you tell him anything other than the snark at the end or did you just expect him to realize that he wasn't tanking since you have Grit on?

[Fernosaur]

I queued for Lvl 50 roulette as Scholar, got Qarn hard.

The tank was a Roe PLD, he waited until I put all buffs on him, then literally walked to the dungeon's entrance and left.

I meant wt actual f

[Pixelmancer]

For the record I'm not a new player. I just haven't played since before the expansion. I was a white mage so I decided to start over as a tank this time. I just tanked Haukke Manor. It was a PUG so I played cautious at first to decide how much I can pull. They failed the stupid check. DPS wasn't letting me gather up and get hate on mobs before going balls out mid-pull. They kept aggroing adds. Etcetera. So I was pulling 1 group at a time. One DPS complained about small pulls and then seconds later "accidentally" aggroed another group and gave me a very fake apology. I made some rude comment and this apparently flipped the DPS's psycho switch and she kept yelling at me in party chat the rest of the run. Like literally nonstop for probably 70% of the dungeon.

Meanwhile I was silent nearly the entire time. The only thing I said after the initial confrontation was after the DPS complained that my utter silence apparently counted as arguing with her so I pointed out that I had said a grand total of like 3 sentences the whole run and none of them were recent. She's the only one arguing. Then she yelled at me for calling this an argument despite it being her words in the first place. The DPS proceeds to intermittently refuse to do damage while bragging about how many level 60 classes she has for the last third or so of the dungeon. I tried to kick her, but she was friends with at least one other person in the group so it didn't work. I got one class to 34 and another to 32 without trouble and I was just mentioning to someone that I had gone an oddly long time without running into one of these people. I shouldn't have jinxed it.

[The_NPC]

^ thou I have personally never seen a person at that level of Ego-raging (I rate them by u'r story at 7/10, highest I've seen is a 5/10 mine eather leave after 2-3 insults, are "made" to leave or shut up after their put in their place) I am glad I haven't met one like that thou I have herd of this 1 player who refuses to run with anyone wearing anything under ilv220 from a friend who met them once (which btw sounds stupid if he does this in Aetherchemical as it syncs u anyway, even worse if they try this in a leveling dungeon or any place lv50 & under)

[Jim_Berry]

- Tank announce that it's his first time in A6 Normal.

- I attempt to inform him of tank swaps since I was there as tank as well.

- Healer pulls, after telling new tank that he "...shouldnt join if u dont know your role". Really!?

- BLM added something like "If dps and heal is good, we won't worry about swap."

- I die from 7 stacks, OT struggles to grab enemy.

- Group tells the OT that he suck and should quit.

Not exactly a horror tank story for me, but the new tank was mistreated.

[Spartan926]

The worst story I had was running with a DPS that I SWEAR was a robot. They would just continually run forward without any concern for where I or the healer was, then use an ability/spell on the first thing that came into range. When I tried to ask them to stop I got no response and things just kept going.

Thank god for the healer we had, they kept up the whole group with no wipes.

[Chrysy]

today, in weeping city i queue'd in on my war (only 60 tank) to try and get some gear for him, i waited 40 mins to get in, after 5-8 instant withdrawals, and finally i get in, 3 warriors, 1 in defiance (26k hp), one in no stance, and me, in deliverence(35k hp), so i switched into defiance, main tanked it, and the dps was abyssmal, wiped 3 times on forgalli due to too many dps tunnel visioning at under 10%, then wiping on ozma 4 times because 2 dps dc'd midfight and generally ignoring mechanics. i was weeping by the end at seeing so many people ignoring mechanics q-q

[Zanb]

I forgot the DNG. I was with a friend I recently met through the game. He's new. He was the tank and I was the healer. Had a SMN and BLM. BLM proceeded to stand there probably waiting for more pulls. When it didn't happen, he pulled it himself, I told my buddy to just ignore him and focus on the standard 3-mob he has pulled. I saw the BLM's HP go down and proceeded to ignore him. He then said to "learn how to speed run." On a new person. I think it was copperbell mines.

[SmallHobbit]

I forgot the DNG. I was with a friend I recently met through the game. He's new. He was the tank and I was the healer. Had a SMN and BLM. BLM proceeded to stand there probably waiting for more pulls. When it didn't happen, he pulled it himself, I told my buddy to just ignore him and focus on the standard 3-mob he has pulled. I saw the BLM's HP go down and proceeded to ignore him. He then said to "learn how to speed run." On a new person. I think it was copperbell mines.

hahahahahaha this could be me and my friend! we always go as BLM and SMN in dungeon and BURN all mobs down at once, but copperbell isnt a dungeon where we use to run

regards small hobbit

[RopeDrink]

The above never fails to annoy me. Half the time, it's quicker to blitz through small groups (Healer more likely to have DPS freedom), rather than mass-pull, have Healer on pure-healbot duty, and just sit watching a huge pack wailing on a tank for 5mins straight while everyone falls asleep. As for me, the only tank experience that annoyed me is walking into a low-lev dungeon on my Glad - I have typical marking macro's and all sorts of things setup, but DPS intentionally deviate away from them. I comment that life would be easier for everyone if they hit marks, to which I'm told not to mark anything and I'm not even needed anyway.

So, with that in mind, I abandoned duty for the first time in my FFXIV career, mentally wishing them well if they decide to tell that to raid-tanks in their future content.