Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[LarcSekaya]

Leveling WHM, got Sohm Al with a GNB and their dps buddy. GNB wearing i50 accessories, no neckpiece, and an i28 belt. My fiances on dragoon and they ask me if im gonna say anything. "Only if they do something even more stupid," is my reply. They start out doing baby pulls but no cooldowns and i think, "oh good, they know they are terribly geared." NOPE. WRONG. THEY PULL EVERYTHING TO THE WALL RIGHT BEFORE THE FIRST BOSS.

Literally spend everything i can to keep them up and we wipe because i didnt have a spare gcd to cleanse poison off of myself and i die to poison.

So as i return i say, "look, if youre not gonna come in adequately geared at the very least you could do me the favor of using your cooldowns and not doing large pulls."

The GNB's dps friend says, "no need to be so hostile..."

I was so tempted to say "oh, i'll show you hostile" and then kick them. Eeked it out to the end and when i mention to the GNB that he needs to get better gear the DPS friend says "i do what i want."

Look, i'm always down for people getting into tanking but REALLY think you should have to have a tank leveled to 70 to be able to pick GNB up.

I mean, GNB starts off with a full set of armor and accessories from the initial starting quest. How the tank didn’t have at least level 60 gear (255/260) is beyond me.

[Hawklaser]

I mean, GNB starts off with a full set of armor and accessories from the initial starting quest. How the tank didn’t have at least level 60 gear (255/260) is beyond me.

If it was in a coffer, maybe their armory chest was full and they went to inventory? Also possibility of full inventory affecting receipt of them? The quick equip option doesn't check inventory, just armory chest.

[DonovanLifeweaver]

getting kicked off from a group by a red mage main playing as tank from famfrit server, for not pulling anything as a healer xD also told that same tank to off the broom hes got stuck up his butt because he got mad because i couldnt keep him up in the goo section while he had 7 monsters on him and went way ahead of the group before we could move and asked him to calm down before i would res him. after he died on a spiderweb door
also went into the first room to ge a cell, usually done this way from memory, i pulled i tanked, 3 mobs...i didnt die. that prolly triggered him

https://imgur.com/a/PufYzaL

[Heliantheae]

Twice today I had people leave. First time was in leveling Gubal. He kept dying to the first boss. Healer kept picking him up and healing him but he kept dying. He just left during the fight.

Second time was in Mhach. Again they kept dying to the first boss. To be fair over half the alliance died to the very first mechanic. The death tornado that sucks you in. He just left during the fight.

You can't get better if you don't try. And both times everyone was saying it's fine, mistakes happen. That kind of stuff. So no one was yelling at them.

[Insertcoins]

Well.... leveling breaker I've had some ROUGH starts. I'm not happy about it but I am a BAD tank T.T. I fully didn't understand how to use my cool downs and caused a few wipes. I never snapped at anyone tho atleast and always said -my bad-. But I felt horrible for being bad. So I went in with trust and ran a few new dungeons until I was abit more comfy on the job. I guess it paid off as I was just tanking the 78 dungeon and the healer randomly thanked me for using my CDs. It was a big pull too.

I like to pride myself in knowing what Im doing but leveling gun was ... an experience. I almost deleted the alt I'm leveling it on as I was seriously knocked down a peg and pride was extra hurt. But I'm glad I didn't and kept going to the lab to practice and to look back and try and learn from my mistakes. It SUCKS man.... but I don't want to be horrible so I'mma truck on. The worst part is seeing that you need improvement and knowing what that means. It sucks and doesn't feel good AT ALL. You can ask for people to be nicer or whatever but at the end of the day if you have to improve then you have to do it. If for nothing else so people don't get super pissed at you in dungeons. -sigh- One day I'mma be perfect... and not deal with these things called feelings and regret lol. One day.

[SturmChurro]

Well.... leveling breaker I've had some ROUGH starts. I'm not happy about it but I am a BAD tank T.T. I fully didn't understand how to use my cool downs and caused a few wipes. I never snapped at anyone tho atleast and always said -my bad-. But I felt horrible for being bad. So I went in with trust and ran a few new dungeons until I was abit more comfy on the job. I guess it paid off as I was just tanking the 78 dungeon and the healer randomly thanked me for using my CDs. It was a big pull too.

I like to pride myself in knowing what Im doing but leveling gun was ... an experience. I almost deleted the alt I'm leveling it on as I was seriously knocked down a peg and pride was extra hurt. But I'm glad I didn't and kept going to the lab to practice and to look back and try and learn from my mistakes. It SUCKS man.... but I don't want to be horrible so I'mma truck on. The worst part is seeing that you need improvement and knowing what that means. It sucks and doesn't feel good AT ALL. You can ask for people to be nicer or whatever but at the end of the day if you have to improve then you have to do it. If for nothing else so people don't get super pissed at you in dungeons. -sigh- One day I'mma be perfect... and not deal with these things called feelings and regret lol. One day.

Best not to overthink it. You can always do small pulls until you get used to it. The tank decides the pulls.

At this point, it's mostly just making sure you have your tank stance on, and aoe'ing a couple times, and you pretty much won't ever lose aggro. When it comes to DCD management, I don't really know gunbreakers kit, as I haven't leveled one yet, but generally, when you get used to it, you just time them right. Remember arm's length is a dcd now, and can really help with some packs. By timing I mean, take note of what the healer has used on you, in time you will get used to the healers cds as well as yours. Sometimes the healer will have downtime, and you ahve to pop something to keep up, or the healer is doing dps. How fast adds are being downed, will you have this dcd up by next pull, etc.. As a dark knight generally I will use 'The blackest Night' on cd during pulls, and some pulls it's the only cd you need. If you are going in before a boss room, depending on the boss/healer you might even be able to get away with just dumping everything. You can even dump some dcd right after a boss is downed and the new adds, because it will be up by the time you get to the adds before boss room. You would be better off not just sitting on your skills, and use them. During boss, I have yet to play the other tank classes, but generally you wanna manage your MP on dark knight for example so you can pop "blackest night" on a buster, pay attention to the boss's casts.

[Hash_Browns]

Well.... leveling breaker I've had some ROUGH starts. I'm not happy about it but I am a BAD tank T.T. I fully didn't understand how to use my cool downs and caused a few wipes. I never snapped at anyone tho atleast and always said -my bad-. But I felt horrible for being bad. So I went in with trust and ran a few new dungeons until I was abit more comfy on the job. I guess it paid off as I was just tanking the 78 dungeon and the healer randomly thanked me for using my CDs. It was a big pull too.

I like to pride myself in knowing what Im doing but leveling gun was ... an experience. I almost deleted the alt I'm leveling it on as I was seriously knocked down a peg and pride was extra hurt. But I'm glad I didn't and kept going to the lab to practice and to look back and try and learn from my mistakes. It SUCKS man.... but I don't want to be horrible so I'mma truck on. The worst part is seeing that you need improvement and knowing what that means. It sucks and doesn't feel good AT ALL. You can ask for people to be nicer or whatever but at the end of the day if you have to improve then you have to do it. If for nothing else so people don't get super pissed at you in dungeons. -sigh- One day I'mma be perfect... and not deal with these things called feelings and regret lol. One day.

A few tips for learning tanking:

1. always check your healers gear to see if you can pull big or small. If the healer is geared well, you can & should usually pull big.
2. Arm's Length is a great cooldown. It's comparable to Rampart. A lot of people don't seem to use Arm's Length for some reason.
3. Stop caring about dying. You only lose time, and it's something I think most tanks & healers need to get over. Trial by fire is the best way to learn. At worse, you fail, and if you succeed - that will just increase your confidence.

Also, I tend to put all of my cooldowns near where they would be for other tank classes. It actually really helped me for learning Cooldown usage of other classes without needing to look at hotbars. For example, Nebula is on the same button as Sentinel, Shadow Wall, and Veng - while on all tanks Rampart is right beside them.

[Duskane]

Que up for my daily level roulette

get vault
oh god
check healers gear they are missing a ring rest of the gear is alright
here we go again.

the run was..

Perfectly fine no wipes tank pulled wall to wall and it went smoothly

[gumas]

play as DPS today, titania trial (normal)

party start, didnt even hit titania once, one tank nope out and force leave.

reason? because both healer are AST, what... in the world? talk about super rude. especially when both healer is deck on 420'ish gear while the nope tank is still at 410'ish, luckily the other tank got his guildy (also tank) on free so he call him and everything went well.

ever since shb, the ammount of "rude" people really adding up, i feel sorry for you all who primarily doing endgame raid and stuff.

[foussi]

I just witnessed the most dumbest thing ever.
Was doing trial roulette yesterday and got titania, so we start.
Basically at some point the tank died only once and the healer made fun of him for dying, at that point both healer and tank got into a conflict and insulted each other through the whole damn fight.
At a certain point the healer apologized for being pissy and had just a bad day.
Smh all of that could have been avoided.