What Tank Do You Find the Most Satisfying to Play?

[Kacho_Nacho]

I've spent years in MMOs (WoW, *shudders* Maple Story, other random FtP Korean mmos, and now FF14) being a dps. I recently had a midjob crisis in that I just couldn't stand being a Smn or Blm anymore and wanted desperately to be something else that was much more fast paced and engaging. The problem intensified when my highly picky and extremely indecisive nature rose up. When it comes to games like Final Fantasy, Zelda, Skyrim, Kingdoms of Amalur, etc. I'm a very "Brute Force" type of person. I'm not one for devising cunning strats or sneaking around for stealth kills. I'm a "I'mma slice your head off and shove it up your bum" type of person, relying on instinct and memorizing attack patterns to just go all ham on a enemy or boss. Also aside from magic I like 2H swords (with 1H swords being an alternative when I can't use 2H ones). So I gave Drk a try, being scared out of my mind to tank since it's something I've never done before and I kept hearing left and right how clunky Drk was and how it was bad and stuff. I took the dive and oddly enough it felt almost second nature to me, I was able go with my brute force, instinctual style of playing and was doing rather well. After a time I gave Pld a go, but it just didn't feel right like Drk did to me. As I leveled up, I got more use to the idea of being a tank, though was still scared out of my wits at making a mistake. Now though, I'm perfectly fine with being a tank, am able to keep a very chill attitude and keep groups as happy and fun as I am able and even have a new found confidence in myself.

Becoming a Drk and a tank in general has been a most liberating experience as this has been the most relaxed I've felt playing this game since 2.0 and I'm having tons of fun, with no stress and actually enjoying being with the random people I encounter in DF, even if the run fails horribly. I do my best as a tank and don't feel any pressure or have any feelings of nervousness or timidness and instead I always feel inspired to do better and to do my best always. So Drk will be my choice and for as long as I can will be my main choice of tank as it opened my eyes to a role that ended up fitting me far better than I could have ever hoped and turned me into a person who loves to tank and getting excited at going sword first into new content. Lol, sorry if this ended up being a life story type of post, it's just Drk really changed me for the better in this game and I just wanted to explain why I love the job so much.

No need to apologize. Finding a class which clicks with you is half the fun when playing an MMO. In addition, your post was a great read. I am happy you enjoy being a DrK.

[Renryuu]

No need to apologize. Finding a class which clicks with you is half the fun when playing an MMO. In addition, your post was a great read. I am happy you enjoy being a DrK.

Thank you kindly.

Yeah, I'm having tons of fun, though now I have a new obstacle to overcome in the form of my real life friend and telling him I want to leave our very dead FC to join another, but that is a different story lol. Back when I first started mmos with WoW, my first main was a Blood Death Knight dps and for some reason that I can't remember anymore I ditched it to go ranged and ever since that time I was never quite satisfied or felt "right" with any ranged class. Now that I pushed myself to finally break the cycle of being ranged, I'm much happier and have renewed enjoyment for the game and MMOs in general and being a tank feels far more fitting to me than dps, which is the really odd part since I'm not exactly a leader type of person, just a very headstrong and stubborn one lol.

[Jim_Berry]

DRK was satisfying, but I had to get rid of it after getting the mount. I am not used to being OT, so I get carried away with Dark Arts spam to dps more. I then get caught up in the moment of an unexpected MT death, but I don't have enough MP to Unleash or Unmend after Provoke.

That said, it's no longer satisfying as I sometimes would be labeled as a crappy DRK that can't manage MP. If I play it safe, then I get flagged as a crappy DRK that can't dps.

Moving forward, I just keep my PLD. I have more MT runs and I'm never really an OT long unless we're trying out something.

Tried WAR for the fourth time and I still hate it.

[Jim_Berry]

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Interesting read!

In most MMOs, I'm usually support or healer. In FFXI, while I started as WHM, I became a fulltime NIN tank, then retired as a COR support.

FFXIV was my first time stepping into a dominant dps role. Started as CNJ but became BRD because I thought it was to be similar to FFXI. Being a dps class, I liked it but wasn't dps-savvy to the community's standards.

I ended up becoming NIN when ROG released. Enjoyed it a lot and still play it today as my main. However, the release of Alexander Gordias has shown that, like BRD, I cannot handle being a dps as my numbers are low. Even when I'm top dps, I'd be at like 900 to 1k when I need to be 1.3k or higher.

Mentally, it had affected my morale with that game that I went as far as deleted my character in an attempt to quit, because my in-game frustrations was affecting real life. Since I returned a month or so after the deletion with a character restore, I am slowly transitioning over to PLD and it has been great so far.

I DID try WHM again, but I don't like the pressure of needing to be a dps while healing. While FFXIV is my first MMO where I became a dps, FFXI was my first at being a tank (as NIN). Being a tank in FFXIV is so refreshing.

As a dps, I beat myself up if I mess up. As a tank, I can mostly recover from a hiccup. If I die, I can easily get raised and snatch hate again with two abilities. If I die as a dps, it's tough to catch and the whole group can feel it.

The ONLY thing that keeps me playing NIN is that she's my highest iLv. Since I'm currently learning Nidhogg Ex, I'd rather learn as a high iLv (NIN iLv230) versus my lower iLv (PLD/DRK iLv223), although people are encouraging me to learn as my tank so I have it learned as I gradually gear her.

[shape]

If its a tank class/job I will level and play it, so I would say I love all tank type roles

I started as a Paladin but was asked to change to War, I've never looked back

Why do I like War the most just look up Xeno

[Fernosaur]

Today I was on PLD running T9 with friends for shits and giggles, and also to get our DRG some clears. A lot of people didn't really know what they were doing, naturally, so divebombs were a DISASTER.

HOWEVER, right before the first divebomb went off, I popped Tempered Will, the shittiest CD in the game, Covered our healer, and just stood with her in the center, chilling while absolutely nothing happened to us. This could have been simulated at lvl 50 by substituting Tempered Will with HG, as Divebombs don't push back if they don't deal damage. It took her a bit, but she pretty much spend the next 30 seconds manually raising everyone while I kept myself alive with Clemency and CDs.

This kinda shit right here, as RARE and (quite honestly) useless as it is in current raid tiers, is why I love Paladin. It's so satisfying to do tricky utility shit like that <3

[RopeDrink]

Paladin is the way to go for me. I just don't enjoy War kit as much, and DRK feels way too squishy. As Paladin, I just seem to have everything I need to get a smoother job done. Mar/War is a close second but I just feel I have to do a lot more running around and aggro just seems a bit harder to maintain (but I'm only level <30, compared to 36 Paladin, so maybe I just need to give it time). I tried the DRK's class missions and just couldn't enjoy it - and 90% of posts I see regarding them usually paint the same picture as my own assumptions.

[Laerune]

As a healer I dont mind the class of the tank, since the player is the one that will make my run a fun run or a hellhole. As a tank, there is something about Warrior that just clicks with me. Maybe its, because Warrior is a tank, healer and a dps in one?

[Lambdafish]

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Thordans second to final phase (with the fire, ice, cardinal directions and gaze), I couldn't do it as PLD, so I hallowed grounded and looked away from the gaze, phase skipped.

[Ahrniel]

I tried really hard, but so far from Marauder and Gladiator, I only enjoyed Marauder.
Why, I even got to Lv.50 Warrior!

But Gladiator? Those 19 lvls I need for a tanking stance are harder to get than spelling a Miqo'te's name! God, It made me hate this game for the first time after over 400 hours playing it. No, I refuse, gotta keep my experience clean and pristine. If they deleted Gladiator and Paladin tomorrow I would be actually glad.