Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[seekified]

Ran Gubal HM as WAR with my BLM girlfriend the other day. Ended up with an AST and a MNK who quite honestly was terrible. I'm not usually one to mind poor DPS since Deliverence and Flare nuking usually compensates pretty well for that, but this guy kept standing in everything on the way and barely broke 700 DPS. The AST didn't DPS at all.

When we finally got to Strix after ~20 minutes, the MNK got himself killed within the first 30 seconds, was raised, and then the AST disconnected when the boss was around 50%.

You know that feeling when a dungeon boss suddenly feels like an EX trial? I jumped into Defiance and started popping cooldowns and Inner Beasts. The MNK died again at 46% (didn't hide behind a rock), and me and my girlfriend completed the rest on our own. First and only time I've seen Strix' mechanics start over with a second Tornado. I was pleased we cleared, but man. How a MNK like that even got to endgame is beyond me.

[ChloeGrace]

Hullbreaker HM. Final boss. Got 2 onions and a snotty know it all bard with i260 relic.
I pull, get a good enmity lead on the first tentacle, leave it at 25% and run to the 2nd on on the first island. I start tanking the 2nd tentacle, thinking the rest will follow my lead, but DPS is nonexistent.
All 3 others had jumped left after the first tentacle died.
In the space of 20 seconds, the WHM took aggro, DRG dropped a whirlwind in the middle of them all and died. BRD is at 20%, starts whining at me, "Come on, tank this sh*t."
WHM panics and starts using water spouts to jump all over trying to get away from the tentacles, gaining stacks every time.

SMH. There's a reason I'm not a mentor.

[ManuelBravo]

A tank pops up with min gear requirements everyone else on High level gear and relic. Long run specially at Scorpion phase. Luckily we had an awesome healer

[Xerxus___]

Doing diabolos dun scaith fight doing the job of the ots and fight main boss to as the tanks could not aggro simple adds. My heart was beating like hell.

[Okamimaru]

im going to start off by saying im not a Pro at tanking (tank as DRK)... i pull to my comfort level (usually small fast pulls)... im fine in dungeons but lack the confidence for 8 or 24 man runs... as for horror stories ive probably ended up tanking more dungeons as a DPS (ninja usually) than i have as a tank simply because the tanks just wernt doing their job (didnt want to or didnt know how, i dont know which)... nothing worse than having to switch to Titan-egi as a summoner because your tank has NO IDEA what hes supposed to be doing... if i have to do it i will but if im tanking and DPSing as a DPS class i better walk away with the coms...

[SyzzleSpark]

I actually have a recent one - First Punishing Heat after Inception in A12S, the party DPS was good, so we were pushing things a tad faster than my cooldown's recasts. A number of other people had made mistakes in previous pulls, and we had acknowledged them and recovered. I'd spent the entire fight out of Grit and was doing fine. I noticed the SCH was very reluctant to stop DPSing and help their co-healer though. Heat came and I had DM and Conva up, took 33K, no shield, the auto afterwards killed me. The BLM raged and had me kicked. The BLM. Afterwards, the WHM who is on my server messaged me and said that yeah, the SCH was struggling, but she kicked me to appease the BLM and other DPS because "they're from Gilgamesh and I want my cane."

#scapetank2017.

Fun fact - my next farm party I had my pocket healer with me - managed 97th with both healers still doing 13-1400 DPS combined. #endthemainhealeroffhealermeta

[Venjenz]

My horror stories were all basically the same this weekend - with my whopping average of i167 and having seen the higher tier trials/dungeons once, maybe twice...I kept being the most experienced person in my party, and things were not going well.

In Dzmael, we wiped twice to trash packs and our two DPS died a total of like 7 times total on the final boss. I tend to look inward when bad stuff happens, but what should I be doing besides tanking to the mechanics of the fight, such that our Summoner and Monk don't die multiple times? I have aggro whole fight, I point cleave away from group, I even teach the whole "kill the crystals NAO!!" thing, but what else can I do?

Whenever I get two inexperienced DPS in one instance, I have serious trouble carrying them. What can you do as a tank in those occasions, because I am in one long, interrupted blur of horror stories lately.

[RuleofThree]

One time. I started a level 50 ARR quest, and forgot if you do a quest lower level than you, it strips you of all buffs...so I wasn't in shield oath. Pulled first big pull, couldn't keep hate. Finally realized mistake, tapped in on, grabbed all hate back, and finished fight without any death.

Party kicked me.

Love this community to death.

[RopeDrink]

I recall a time two weeks ago where I entered SotFather for a gear. I'd say approximately 40 seconds after the "SONIC BOOM", Alex randomly turns around and starts chasing me (WHM). Both tanks were alive and neither had died, and I had not used anything major or been overhealing (just the usual Deeps/Deeps/Top-off/Deeps), so I can only assume they were both farting around in DPS stance. I guess the mixture put me above the DPS emnity count - the other healer was borderline AFK reactively being on 'healthbar watch' duty (very slow). Neither tank seemed to deem it important enough to actually get him off me, so I ended up sprinting around the edges for the entire minute it took them to realize what was going on. I was doing my best to ensure his triangular AoE busters weren't cutting across all the other players in the middle of the arena while running for my life. Given they showed no desire to peel, I couldn't stop kiting in the hopes someone would pull him off me, so just kept runnin' and gunnin'.

As weird/amusing as it was, we cleared it like nothing happened when they woke the hell up, but this didn't stop me cringing at the prospect of them entering a savage raid with those shenanigans.

[aqskerorokero]

Party ask me to stay more in dps stance and do huge mega pull, after burned 3 defensive cd, I died.