Tank dps harrasment

[Lewtskie]

As the tank it's kind of my job to take the reigns on their experience wouldn't you say?

Disagreed, and I really don't care this assumption. Being a Tank does not make you the defacto leader. You control the flow just as much as everyone else, and the one with the greater experience should, in any situation, be the one holding the reigns.

I appreciate you sharing that experience. I do however completely disagree that you didn't learn a thing. You very clearly learned how to mass pull. You learned what kind of gear wasn't as suitable for it. You learned that your FC mates aren't the best analysts.

Most importantly though, hopefully you learned that YOU have room to improve your tanking because I can say with 100% confidence you didn't do the best you could do either. Maybe you stacked cooldowns too much. Maybe you didn't stagger them properly. Maybe you weren't DPSing down the targets doing the most damage, etc.

Everything you just listed is rather superfluous. Yes, you can say I learned more than a handful of things that day, good and bad. But I suppose it's a matter of the value of what was learned. If anything, I learned not to trust those people as much, yay. And "learning to mass pull" is a technicality, as you learn that when you learn to pull from the first time. You're merely applying your knowledge and tools expansively.

And a game like this is not a chaotic force full of unknowns. You learn the mechanics, apply them, and in the end code and numbers dictate the outcome. I used my cooldowns as necessary, the time it took for me to drop was significant in that no amount of DPS available at the time would have resulted in a better outcome. I understand you didn't know that context, so that's fine. In the end it came down to numbers, and the difference meant failure was the only outcome.

You let fear shape you Break those chains and be the best you can be. Bring as many people along for the ride as you can and you might be surprised at just how many are glad to be a part of it.

It was through that fear that I learned to play other jobs. I wanted to keep playing the game but avoid tanks so I learned a few DPS and even attempted healers. Fear can be just as much a constructive force as any other. If anything worthwhile I learned, it's that. But I will never want anyone to be beholden to my situation; because while I came out in the end questionably better, though it took time, others may not. There's no telling how people will function and react as such and so I will never willingly put them there.