A complaint from a whiny healer

[Ftail]

It seems less to me like you have an issue with no tank stance and more that you simply had a bad tank. Maybe I'm missing the point too, but if he had tank stance on for trash and was getting absolutely murdered and no tank stance for bosses, the issue is that he isn't using mitigation cooldowns. Likely an issue with armor as well.

The point I'm trying to make is don't be afraid to use tank stance if you need to. It seems to me these forums label any tank who stays in tank stances as a "bad" tank. But, I argue depending on the circumstances you could be a great tank staying in tank stance. Anyone leveling a tank might feel pressured from other people to not use tank stance, and I want to reassure people that you aren't a bad tank if you have to use tank stance on bosses while leveling up.

[Ventura_Highway]

I want to reassure people that you aren't a bad tank if you have to use tank stance on bosses while leveling up.

You're a bad tank if you lack control over the fight, if you ask me. Maybe that requires tank stance occasionally, especially if you're like me and the DPSes you're playing with have better gear and are constantly at your throat in the aggro race. I suppose this goes for everyone, but I'd emphasize for tanks that it's important to constantly evaluate your own performance and figure out where you can improve.

Could I have handled more packs at the same time? Did I use too many cooldowns? Could I have done/prevented more damage? I keep asking myself these questions, sometimes I reach a conclusion, and maybe that conclusion is wrong and I get everyone killed because I can't actually handle that many mobs, or because there's more mobs than I expected. That's okay and I'll improve in the future.

I suppose the question that needs to be solved with a dialogue between healers and tanks, is "When do we consider the attack effectively mitigated?"

For what it matters, I took SCH and AST to 60. It is a little uncanny how hard it is to level 30-50 Dark Knights alive.