Got kicked Right before boss.

[Aniond]

Seriously.. Your tank. You will find a new group before they find another tank

[Maighdlin]

...the SCH had some really offensive macros about how drinking bleach was better than playing with this tank).

Any support I might have given you to kick the OP is nullified by this. You see it as punishment so the tank learns a lesson. I see it as abandoning someone who was being bullied and standing with the abusers. No way can I support such a decision in this particular circumstance.

[xMysticx]

it was a mistake making this thread...

[xMysticx]

also Vidu. Could you stop replying to my thread at this point?, Your not helping at all whatsoever, i don't know why you feel so entitled when you weren't even there when this happened, you have made 4 reply's of just pure negativity.

[Ghastly]

Sorry you had to go through this, it's pure harassing and it's even sadder other people mocked you. But yeah the community used to be nicer and it's still nice in general but there's a lot of holier than thou people in duties now how want a level 50 tank to play as if he/she been playing for months or years. Then people wonder why people ask why NA is toxic.

[xMysticx]

Sorry you had to go through this, it's pure harassing and it's even sadder other people mocked you. But yeah the community used to be nicer and it's still nice in general but there's a lot of holier than thou people in duties now how want a level 50 tank to play as if he/she been playing for months or years.

eh it's fine, just didn't expect to get this much backlash.

[Maighdlin]

it was a mistake making this thread...

It's unfortunately a mistake to make just about any thread on this forum... But I hope you will not let that get you down. For as many toxic players we have on the forums, we have more nice people in game. I hope you have more enjoyable experiences in the future.

[Rosentretter]

eh it's fine, just didn't expect to get this much backlash.

I just remembered back in the day when I started playing, my main job is Paladin as well, and I was in a lvl 60 dungeon. LVL 60 DUNGEON and I was still popping all my cooldowns at once, can you believe that? People made fun of me and called me many things. I felt really bad, but after the dungeon I gave myself the time to look for guides and help to see what was I doing wrong. And man. Feels so good to actually learn a job and get all those easy commendations for doing an excellent job as tank. You had a bad experience, and that sucks, but there's 2 ways to deal with that. Or you move on and learn from it and improve, or you keep blaming others for your mistakes.

[Nedkel]

Oh okay also yes i know how to do the combo set, i mainly didn't use it because i didn't think it would be that effective.

In the pack of 4 mobs and more its not as effective.
You usually just want to pull 2-3 groups (that means up to 9 mobs) with flash and shield lob, then use some Deffensive ability to not die in the progress, use circle of scron, spirits within on any random mob and spam Total eclipse (that aoe spell you have with blue icon) along with shield swipe whenever it is up.
A combo of 3 skills you use basically if you want to kill single target faster, the bosse or something like this.

You want to use abilities like:
- Circle of scorn
- Spirits within
- shield swipe
Everytime they are up to use, because they cost nothing to use for you and using them will makes things die faster, keep that in mind.
And you want to use deffensive abilities like : Sentinel, bulwark, divine veil, and in the "role" bar bellow "action" you want to choose: Rampart, anticipation, convalescence as your other deffensive abilities using them along with the ones you have already. Dont use all of them at once, wait till one will get off then use a second one and so on. What it will do, is make you tankier, easier to heal, and make you able to hold more mobs than usually.
More mobs means, more hits from aoe abilities, and that means the dungeon will go faster and easier for everyone.
Oh and dont forget to use shield stance if you are fighting many mobs at once, you could switch back to sword stance at the boss and mini-boss, will make you kill it faster.

Dont listen to guys who tells you to use multiple flash, this is stupid advice and you should never follow it. Just make sure that 1 flash hits all the mobs, this is more than enough if you are in the Shield stance, it gives enough treat to keep mobs attacking you, circle of scorn is also a treat generator and makes mobs focus on you.
You only use flash if mobs are focusing someone else than you, you could see it on the side with the enemies list, all of them should have red button on them, that means they are focusing on you, if its yellow that means they are focusing on one of your party members, you should pick that mob back as fast as possible, in this game 1 random mob could easly kill a DPS.

[Kakiko]

Kaldea, I'm not suggesting you shouldn't have kicked the tank, just that the timing (as other people said) was off. I also kind of agree with whoever said that you were taking the side of bullies, if the other two were being offensive and toxic to this tank. There's a time and a place for kicking, and leaving it right to the end makes you come across as petty and vindictive. You were right in kicking, it's the TIMING that is suspect.


To the tank, you are getting some backlash here, but look at how many people are saying the same thing. They're not digs at you PERSONALLY, just your skill level. That is something you CAN change if you want to. Don't take it as toxicity to be told that you're not performing to the best of your abilities, take it as encouragement to improve. No one here, from what I have seen, has told you anything insulting or toxic; maybe a bit of tough love, but sometimes that's what works.

Get back out there, utilize the tips given here, and improve. There is ALWAYS room for improvement. Even world first raiders work to improve their runs.