How can you tell a bad tank?

[gumas]

if their mp is either half full or full, at any point in the dungeon while foes are present, that's also a red flag

i give it okay if it half full for DRK and PLD, sometimes tank just want the easy way out (just do aoe combo and thats that) and i admit i do that too when iam doing my dailies (in case of PLD i save some just in case of emergency heal), i mean the important aspect is the defensive CD for me at least.

but in boss fight i agree, if i see DRK or PLD mp is not empty 80% of the time during boss fight, thas bad. not the worst, but bad yeah.

[Forever_Learning]

i mean the important aspect is the defensive CD for me at least.
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I think my first DRK tank in the Vault did nothing other than tank stance (grit) and DPS.

Is there an easy way to tell if a defensive CD has been used?

Second tank, so much more would light up other than grit, and healing was easy - so I like to think those were defensive CDs.

More generally, I'd like to be able to ask the tank to use defensive CDs when I it's not being done and we're wiping.

I guess seeing them go from 100% to 20% over and over during a pull (i.e., after every heal they get) is a good sign that defensive CDS arent being used?

[gumas]

Is there an easy way to tell if a defensive CD has been used?

after defensive CD is used no. but if they use defensive CD there should a skill icon appear on their party ui



like that

[Zfz]

but in boss fight i agree, if i see DRK or PLD mp is not empty 80% of the time during boss fight, thas bad. not the worst, but bad yeah.

Shouldn't the PLD always be accumulating MP towards full most of the time anyways?

• Requiescat's 50% buff and instant cast effect is only activated if the PLD as 8000+ MP.
• Requiescat has a 60s cooldown which lines up nicely with the PLD rotation to recover to full MP.
• Confiteor (the 800 potency finisher) requires Requiescat.

Requiescat lasts 12s, so basically the PLD will only be spending MP 20% of the time (and basically dump all the MP within that 12 seconds) while trying to accumulate MP 80% of the time.

[Abomination713]

Shouldn't the PLD always be accumulating MP towards full most of the time anyways?

• Requiescat's 50% buff and instant cast effect is only activated if the PLD as 8000+ MP.
• Requiescat has a 60s cooldown which lines up nicely with the PLD rotation to recover to full MP.
• Confiteor (the 800 potency finisher) requires Requiescat.

Requiescat lasts 12s, so basically the PLD will only be spending MP 20% of the time (and basically dump all the MP within that 12 seconds) while trying to accumulate MP 80% of the time.

With the new Requiescat instant cast, you can get all 5 casts out now in that time (2k MP each) so a PLD should have full MP to maximize damage.