Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[Geist]

I was game. The healers were not. I infuriated, used unchained, foresight, pulled the trash, the entire room hit me, and I was dead before I could use vengeance. I didn't get a single heal.

Needless to say I didn't MT anything for the rest of the run.

The sad thing is, that's not the only time that's happened to me in a 24-man. Even while MTing and cycling through cooldowns, some healers don't bother to keep me alive. Generally why I prefer to queue with a healer I know.

It's something that's bound to happen at least once to every tank out there, as they waltz into the great wide open -- my pet name for it is "The Freight Train Experience".

[Ragnah]

>be me
>be a war
>doing Sophia farm per DF
>mt or ot dosen't drop/swap Tankstance after Tankbuster
>writing firendly chat reminder to get correct stance
>vote abandon
>rejected
>almost everyone eating vulnerability stacks
>3 wipes later
>vote abandon again
>rejected
>i leave
>faith in randoms lost

so my dear co-tanks, why don't you switch your stance? like 75% of all sophia fight, i have this tank and mostly spamming aggro rotation in tankstance as ot.

[Madepossible]

A month ago I was working on my Bravura Novus and I was queuing a lot of Syrcus Tower. I was perfectly happy to off tank and not fight for aggro with the PLDs and DRKs that are always keen to MT.

On one of the Syrcus runs, a PLD said "hey, let's have the WAR MT, unchained for every pull!"

I was game. The healers were not. I infuriated, used unchained, foresight, pulled the trash, the entire room hit me, and I was dead before I could use vengeance. I didn't get a single heal.

Needless to say I didn't MT anything for the rest of the run.

The sad thing is, that's not the only time that's happened to me in a 24-man. Even while MTing and cycling through cooldowns, some healers don't bother to keep me alive. Generally why I prefer to queue with a healer I know.

#NeverTrustDFHealers

[bounddreamer]

#NeverTrustDFHealers

I'm pretty sure they were both in cleric stance when I died.

[Februs]

>faith in randoms lost.

Wanna hear something truly horrifying? Almost all of my Sophie Ex clears have been done in Raid Finder with randoms. I saw countless PF groups which specify: "CLEAR GROUP. NO BONUS" but wipe repeatedly and fail to clear; yet, I rolled the dice on Raid Finder and cleared on the first try. All subsequent runs were cleared with one wipe or less. Sophie isn't exactly the diamond standard of Extreme Trials, but at this point I've been putting more faith in randoms than I have been in people who supposedly know what they're doing. It's mind blowing.

[Februs]

This one's kind of a tanking horror story ... in that I was tanking, but not actually playing as a tank.

I've been leveling nin on the side lately, and I join an in-prog of AV. The group had basically just cleared 2nd boss before I got there, but there's only one left -- another nin. He says he waited an hour for that queue, and I sympathize cuz dps queues are garbage. So I say, "might as well have some fun while we wait." Off we go into what must be the strangest paper-tanking swap outs I've ever seen.

Basically, we pulled one group at a time to the giant room where the 2nd ogre boss is. Then we ran in a MASSIVE circle while throwing daggers at the mobs chasing us. Each one of us ran in opposite circles (one clockwise and the other counter-clockwise), and we placed Doton's down at opposite ends of the arena (12 o'clock and 6 o'clock), making sure to kite our respective mobs through both dots to apply consecutive heavies. When we passed each other's mobs, we would hit 'em with a fly-by combo. Each of us only hit one mob from each other's pack so that when we gained aggro, we would also lose aggro on one of our pack. We kept up that weird swap-and-kite method until everything died. It took forever, but we eventually cleared everything up to the final boss door with just 2 nin's. Thankfully, we got a healer by then. A tank joined at around 40% of the final Boss's health (typical), and we cleared at normal.

As far as tanking horror stories go, it wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but it was a strange one. Made for a fun bit of madness.

[orsonriven]

Hi, so i\\\\\\'ve been tanking in mmo\\\\'s for a good bit of games. Tonight I ran the anti tower 3 times with a good group of players, while tanking as drk. Round 4 FIGHT!! So in the next group I have a blkm that is somehow targeting anything and everything that the group is not, and then starts pulling aggro right off me. Healer and brd no problems. Please keep in mind that i\\\\'m playing on a ps4 not pc. During the second boss fight, the blkm is focusing on the boss full time and not the rocks. Then we get to second half of fight I pull spawns hold them while dps attack rocks, and when the rocks get finished he goes to boss and not the adds, I died, and group wipes. He then asks do you have provoke? i\\\\\\'ve never had to use provoke as a drk before in a pug group. My bars are filled with everything i\\\\\\'ve ever needed. And he then starts telling me I didn\\\\\\'t know how to tank. Considering I never really have problems tanking. Is it me or the dps?

[ChloeGrace]

Leveling roulette. Brayflox, with 3 level 38 onions.
First timer bonus, too. Cringe.
Black mage aggros 4 extra mobs. Drags them over to me. I flash, now have aggro on 8 mobs.
Me: Don't pull extra groups, please.
BLM: But I want that chest with <thing you can buy for 38 gil off the market board>.
Proceeds to do it twice more. I let her die the second time.
WHM is obviously a friend, and suddenly stops healing me. Despite it, I survive.
Approaching the final boss, the BLM runs off the get the couerl chest. I run ahead and pull the final boss. BLM gets locked out, dies.
At least I got to need the drop on the last chest.

[randysquirrel]

Is it me or the dps?

You say the blm is targeting things no-one else is. If this is true, they are wrong, they should be aoeing.

Re second boss though, have to say, I'm with him. if the dps is on point, you just burn down the boss before the exploding rocks make any difference. Going after the rocks is just a waste of time. it's like in ARF, boss 1, people still kill the turrets, when its quicker to just tear down the boss.

You should have provoke, but equally you shouldn't need it as you should be holding hate anyway. assuming of course, the blm is using quelling

[Mirch]

Horror story?

I cleared every single content except a11s and a12s without {Provoke}
A real nightmare :'(