Tanks that annoy the heck outta me.

[Brightamethyst]

The amount of times I drop Asylum, Sacred Soil, or Earthly Star directly on the tank and they run out of it is astoundingly annoying.

Some of that may be about the disconnect between those abilities and the entire rest of the game. We're trained from very low levels to never stand in glowing ground circles. Then 50 levels later the game says, "no, just kidding, you're supposed to stand in these." If there's a ton of stuff happening and all of a sudden a ground AoE pops up, the gut reaction is "oh crap." You and I and most of the people dedicated enough to be posting here would instantly know Earthly Star for what it was, but a random tank in the middle of a pull? Maybe not.

(Cover has the same issue. You have to be near the tank for it to work, but people constantly run away from it because all our training says not to stand that close to the tank.)

[HyoMinPark]

Some of that my be about the disconnect between those abilities and the entire rest of the game. We're trained from very low levels to never stand in glowing ground circles. Then 50 levels later the game says, "no, just kidding, you're supposed to stand in these." If there's a ton of stuff happening and all of a sudden a ground AoE pops up, the gut reaction is "oh crap." You and I and most of the people dedicated enough to be posting here would instantly know Earthly Star for what it was, but a random tank in the middle of a pull? Maybe not.

(Cover has the same issue. You have to be near the tank for it to work, but people constantly run away from it because all our training says not to stand that close to the tank.)

Only thing I think you have an argument for with the prior conditioning reasoning is Earthly Star. Asylum, Sacred Soil, and Collective Unconscious are not ground AOEs but domes, and there are no mechanics in this game where a damage dome appears over you (though that would be cool). They also have visible effects (regen ticks that appear via flying text or a buff for damage mitigation that appears on your hotbar), where as Earthly does not.

Many times, when I see a tank running out of my healy bubbles or Earthly, I tell them to please stay in them because they heal. The response? “Ok.” *proceeds to run out of it next time as well* /shrug

As a super tank, I’m taught to avoid any and all floor aoe’s. I don’t know what markers are good or bad...

See above. Earthly may be a ground AOE, but Asylum, Sacred Soil, and Collective Unconscious are not.

If you don't know how to position the boss while in a healer bubble then maybe you need to go back to the Hall of the Novice.

Sadly, HoN doesn’t teach this, as healing bubbles (or even damage AOEs like Shadow Flare) aren’t a thing at the levels where HoN is relevant.

[Linx0r]

This really depends on three thing really. 1) the tank grabbing the mobs and moving them to the location where they will be burned down 2) healer drops bubble in the area that will best get the tank and possibly melee dps. 3) tank stays in bubble as best as they can

If this is in a raid, then the tank and healer should both know where the boss will be positioned for bubble heals

Sometimes with large pulls, step 3 can be tough, especially with a tonne of aoes going on. We do try to stay in the bubbles (any good tank would) please, go easy on us

[Aylis]

Only thing I think you have an argument for with the prior conditioning reasoning is Earthly Star. Asylum, Sacred Soil, and Collective Unconscious are not ground AOEs but domes, and there are no mechanics in this game where a damage dome appears over you (though that would be cool). They also have visible effects (regen ticks that appear via flying text or a buff for damage mitigation that appears on your hotbar), where as Earthly does not.

I've tried to get around this, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't by using a text macro with a "I'M DOING A THING!!!!" sound effect before using sacred soil so the tank knows its coming and it's an okay thing! Don't panic! Weither they run out of it or even know what sacred soil does is on them and beyond my control and at that point all there is to do is silently grumble. The real trick is to go in with the lowest of expectations for any new tank. It saves so many headaches let me tell you, haha.

[Iscah]

(Cover has the same issue. You have to be near the tank for it to work, but people constantly run away from it because all our training says not to stand that close to the tank.)

More importantly, that glowing tether line looks like it might be something dangerous that you have to break by running away.

[Brightamethyst]

More importantly, that glowing tether line looks like it might be something dangerous that you have to break by running away.

Ha ha, yeah. It's been a year since SB launch and people still occasionally freak out over Dragon Sight too.

[Canadane]

More importantly, that glowing tether line looks like it might be something dangerous that you have to break by running away.

Strange bit here is they've changed it in the past to look more helpful.

[Gemina]

Strange bit here is they've changed it in the past to look more helpful.

And I don't really understand why. Tether from enemy to player = bad. Tether from player to player = good. It really shouldn't be that difficult to grasp. Granted there are mechanics that require for tethered players to spread apart or even come together, but these abilities are casted by mobs. Player tethers are all green iirc.

[Iscah]

And I don't really understand why. Tether from enemy to player = bad. Tether from player to player = good. It really shouldn't be that difficult to grasp.

Unless you're in the Vault and Charibert chained you to another player, in which case you run apart to break it.

[Gemina]

Unless you're in the Vault and Charibert chained you to another player, in which case you run apart to break it.

I remembered this specific mechanic after posting and edited it. There are also invisible tethers such as Judgment Nisi from Alexander, but these are very specific examples. It is definitely meant to be applied from a more generic sense, but thanks for pointing out Unholy Chain, which kiils unaware peeps often.