My first experience as a tank - I thought I was playing WoW for a second

[Jimmymagic]

My gut instinct tells me this is a troll wanna be...new player but have 400 hours of gaming...hmmmm

But I will indulge...Gunbreaker starts at 60 with default gear at ilevel 170 I believe which makes you over geared for all level 50 dungeons. If you have done the many instances as you said thane you have had to seen other tanks pulling more mobs when over geared. Big thing though if your legit "NEW" gotta tell people right away don't wait until x wipes and last boss. Its ok to be new, everyone was at some point but not communicating gives the expectation to others you know what you are doing and how to best play your job.

Just my 2 cents

[Derio]

Problem is gunbreaker starts at 60. So when you run any dungeon people assume you know how to tank unless you speak up and say you are new to tanking withing the first 30s of the dungeon. Because by lvl 60 players usually have a good understanding of the game.

If we are in a lvl 60 dungeons and you are pulling adds one by one you are either a bot or dont know what you are doing. So make sure you let people know you are new

[Kaizencorr]

Regardless of your age or opinion, you played poorly and were ridiculed for it. Crappy people will always exist. You shouldn't need to be told that unless you're 12(and if this was CoD)

And if this is you playing the way you want, yes, unfortunately you are gonna be ridiculed a lot more. Just don't go around screaming playstyle at everything you disagree with. Because pulling less than standard is not a 'style' of play.

People are finding every reason to add to this topic of a 400 hour level 80 DPS trying another role. Just let this thread die off.

[MerlinCross]

GNB and DNC start at 60. The next expansions additions would most likely start at 70.
BTW we already have people starting their very first job at 70 on any role and trying Holminster Switch as their first dungeon without any prior experience of party content thanks to jump potions. The stories I've read don't paint the prettiest of pictures of how well it works out. I believe the game just plops you in with no tutorial whatsoever but I'm not entirely sure as I have never seen what exactly happens when you use one.

Doi. Half asleep when I made that post.

[Nedkel]

You cant really be angry at them when you realize how many there are legitimate bots running duty finder.
A lot of them are playing exactly how you would play by pulling each group at time.
Not having a sprout icon next to your nick also contributes to the thing you experienced, since everyone expect from you some level of knowledge and skill when joining a duty, especially at lvl 60 with stormblood dungeons where pulling wall to wall is a standard everyone is expecting from a tank.

If you dont like tanking well its your own choice, try out healers or other dps, jumping into tanking so early is not going to make it easy for you. :f
Also you should expect to see "wow behaviour" more often the more players from that game come over to this game, you are a wow player yourself and complain about others being wow players? How does that work lol.
Be nice to others so others could be nice to you and communicate with them, thats all.

[Isakura]

I always inform the group that I'm new to tanking a particular dungeon if that is the case (I've played since ARR launch, so while the dungeons aren't new, the tanking is a much different ballgame than dps'ing more often than not). Having done my due diligence and if I'm confident in my gear and hear no objections from the healer, I will typically YOLO and pull the first 2 packs, using CDs as necessary (usually the case cuz I have crap gear as a leveling tank sometimes), and yes - sometimes we wipe. But in those situations I don't recall ever getting criticized for that - I will apologize (tho usually the healer apologizes first), then pull a bit more slowly with no complaints. I usually look at the party comp too - do we have good AOE classes? Is our healer a sprout/returner? Party chat exists for a reason, so I don't understand why people don't just communicate to prevent these kinds of issues. And like others have said, it is a multi-player game, so while it is true you have a right to play as you like, keep in mind others' play experience is affected as well (my how this echoes some of today's societal events....). In the end:

WE ARE ALL HERE TO HAVE FUN!!! <3

Edit: I don't post very often and just LOL'd at my profile pic since I have the frog helm on, which apparently is too big for the frame LMAO.

[Mithia]

If you are uncomfortable with playing your class and you emediatly jump into semi high lvl content then you should expect to get some form of feedback.

There are tools out of dungeons that will assist you in getting more familiar with your role and to a certain extent your core class abilities.

Not only that, if its a matter of not knowing what your abilities do then you can always read them and check out how they combo on top of each other on the dummy.

And from what I'm reading, you picked an advanced tanking class in a dungeon role you are unfamiliar with straight into mid/high level content. To be fair, I'd be anoyed as well since I expect to queue 50/60/70 with people who have at least a basic understanding of their role and class.

I'm usually a patient person but players who feel entilted to "play their own way" and waste 3/7 other players their time in the process are just toxic.

[momonami5]

OP has a strange philosphy of things. I think he is just messing with people in the forum to troll. I only play tank class and never experienced anything like this. I always ask the group if they want me to try bigger pulls and then proceed if so.

[Rasikko]

Probably the most direct request I ever got from a healer was as soon as the gate drops the healer said one(1) word: All.

[Videra]

This thread is clearly going well.