Good bye FFXIV tanking..... maybe.....

[Ceallach]

Thanks for the melodramatic blog post.

Be nice.

So good luck to the tanking world. I quit the tanking job.

I wanted to thank you for this post. I was going to unlock gladiator and give it a shot (particularly for the Odin glamour), but now I'm not too sure. As a healer, I never press the tank to pull more. I often use my scholar to farm Allagan tomestones of creation and poetics from dungeons. I've had new tanks, stupid tanks and tanks who liked to show off, and I find that it's usually best if I do my best to support the tank's pace. When I make a mistake (like being too focused on doing damage myself), I own up to it. When the tank makes a mistake, I try to be nice about it while also being firm about the tank fixing the mistake. I haven't been yelled at much, but it's usually because people want to go at the breakneck paces you described. My response is typically something like, "If you want to pull the entire dungeon yourself, expect to be slain and kicked. If you go at the tank's pace, no matter how slow, I have no problem with you."