My first experience at tanking

[Anhra]

No one died. But there was this ranged dps toon who apparently thought that killing everything was a good idea, while I thought that just completing the dungeon objectives was a better idea.

The dps toon started crowing about "Yay, I'm tanking!" Apparently, it didn't occur to him that was only because the healer and I would bail him out. This was just Sastasha, btw, with at least one member who was watching cutscenes, so I was fine waiting for them before engaging.

I know I'm preaching to the choir (Edited Note: People who do that probably don't read these forums). That's why I've never tanked before in a public group in FF14, and will never do so again. I accomplished my objective - get my baby tank to a high enough level to do Squadron missions.

Enjoy your long queue times, dps who do that. I know most of you do not behave that way, but we all suffer because of few who do.

To be fair, in the current state of the game, most of the time it doesn't matter inside dungeons who is tanking because at least 90% of all Dungeons can easily be cleared without even requiring a tank, tanks to Bosses being overall too weak and as you probably withnessed yourself, as long as the dps doesnt pull everything at once, youre good.

It might be more taxing on the Healers end if things turn out that way, but it really is no big deal.

[Tommara]

To be fair, in the current state of the game, most of the time it doesn't matter inside dungeons who is tanking because at least 90% of all Dungeons can easily be cleared without even requiring a tank, tanks to Bosses being overall too weak and as you probably withnessed yourself, as long as the dps doesnt pull everything at once, youre good.

It might be more taxing on the Healers end if things turn out that way, but it really is no big deal.

The long queues for dps are a big deal.

Edited Note: Even so, I'd rather dps, instead of having to deal with bad dps players as a tank or healer. I'm more of a healer at heart, but not in public groups anymore.