I enjoy tanking but I can’t remember every boss

[Derio]

The bottom line is you dont. There are over 100 bosses in this game. You cant possibly expect to know every mechanic from every boss. Just do what you can. Typically look for the common tank busters, room wide aoes and common boss tendencies and that will get you through most content everytime.

[True-to-Caesar]

Thanks for the replies everyone, what stresses me out is the fact that it’s not 3 comrades but a whole army in Alliance Raids and even as DPS I felt bad getting killed by some mechanics and being an annoyance to the healers or the whole group.

Maybe I’m also overthinking about it. Never tanked in any other online games, so it’s still new to me, but I never had any major issue with people.

The bottom line is you dont. There are over 100 bosses in this game. You cant possibly expect to know every mechanic from every boss. Just do what you can. Typically look for the common tank busters, room wide aoes and common boss tendencies and that will get you through most content everytime.

Is there a visual hint for tankbusters ? I didn’t noticed the dark eye thingy for Fear/Glare mechanics for a while, until I did.

Maybe I’m missing something here too ?

[Caitlyn]

Is there a visual hint for tankbusters ?

Boss casts something a bit longer. But no, actually.

You wont die from a tankbuster unless its Savage or higher. But for 24-man-raids or dungeons, you can eat it and remember the name of it for the next time.

Alliance raids are fairly forgiving. Just because a tank died, it wont wipe the entire raid. Even when both healers are dead, there is still a chance to recover from it.

[Mezzoforte]

Thanks for the replies everyone, what stresses me out is the fact that it’s not 3 comrades but a whole army in Alliance Raids and even as DPS I felt bad getting killed by some mechanics and being an annoyance to the healers or the whole group.

Maybe I’m also overthinking about it. Never tanked in any other online games, so it’s still new to me, but I never had any major issue with people.



Is there a visual hint for tankbusters ? I didn’t noticed the dark eye thingy for Fear/Glare mechanics for a while, until I did.

Maybe I’m missing something here too ?

Most healers won't even know youre an annoyance because 0.00005microseconds after you drop to the floor the army of Red Mages will have 100 resurrects flying your way. Even faster if youre a tank, then every redmage and healer swift casts a res on you from 100 miles away. I wouldn't give any stock to caring about messing up in anything. The only time messing up is annoying is in a static where people remember how often you fuck up. In pugs just throw yourself into the meatgrinder. Once the duty is over legit nobody will even remember you unless you had a baller Glam.