Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent. 2.0

[NekoMataMata]

I always drop stance whenever someone does that. If they end up cleaving and killing the party, not my fault they decided to provoke it off me due to their inferiority complex getting the better of them.

Used to do the same in araids all the time when I tanked those. I absolutely refuse to sit there and fight for aggro with someone else. I'm pretty confident that I can take it back most of the time but realistically it's better to just let them tank the boss/mobs into whatever awkward position they want to tank it into and let the rest of the party adjust, rather than spinning the boss non-stop.

[Reynnx]

Got Aitiascope in leveling roulette.
Healer dcs before the last pull, and we had to wait around 15 mins for a new one but none came. So I tell the party that I'll leave and try to join them as Healer (I was dps). It works and I rejoined the duty.
I'm not confident in my healing and had Sage max level by doing msq roulette and deep dungeons. It went well and we cleared the dungeon. The minion drops and I accidentally greed..

Anyways, I took a break then did leveling roulette once more and guess what I got... It's the same dungeon! It was a smooth run, the minion drops again and I got it!

[Vahlnir]

Getting a lot of tanks in trials and raids who will wait until I put my stance on and pull, then suddenly decide that they wanna be the star and start fighting for aggro. Like, dude, I waited to see if you wanted it, I even ask most of the time, you could just take it instead of trying to play big boy. Or at least don't yank the boss back halfway across the arena in the process. Especially when I just dropped Salted Earth under it.

Yeah, that's why I always go in with my stance off. lol What kills me are the tanks who enter with their stance on, or put it on while everyone is standing there, and doesn't budge. Sage buffs them and everything. Still standing there. So, I take matters into my own hands and pull, and only then do they decide they want to tank. Like others have said, I drop my stance immediately when that happens. I refuse to be part of a tank war. If I'm in a bad mood that day I may decide to take it right back and not let it go, but I try not to be that petty. I'm confident in my ability to do exactly that, but 9 times out of 10 I will let the self-centered other tank do what they feel they must.

[Absimiliard]

It's always fun to watch the fragile egotist kill the party after grabbing aggro.

[Vahlnir]

It's always fun to watch the fragile egotist kill the party after grabbing aggro.

As long as my tanking hands are clean and my conscience is clear, that's what matters. The other tank can be as much as an egotist as they want.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'll drop my stance and just let them have it 90% of the time. I prefer to be off-tank in the fights that require it anyway. Too many wipes on Titania or the Refurbisher because I thought the other guy had it.....

Just gets annoying after a while.

[SassyAssassin]

Gosh just had a very salty roe (huehue get it?)…

Ok so I have no problem with people taking their time and being comfortable, if a tank is not comfy pulling too much, ok then we go slow, its just a dungeon I really don’t care but this dude would not shut up (he was the healer).

I main healers and normally I suggest to tanks that they can pull more if they want and Ill keep them alive but if they say they don’t feel like it or nothing at all then ok, I leave it, its neither here nor there.

Either way, I shut up but he started calling the tank braindead? Like dude settle your anger management, so I asked him why so mean?

My boy got sassy saying “and who are you /laughemote”?
Calling me a white knight but joke’s on him, I lack the thing between them thighs to be a knight.

Anyways I told him to go get therapy and he called me Sasuke.

I like Sailor moon and stuff but don’t speak fluent weeb, still learning so who is Sasuke?

[SenorPatty]

Gosh just had a very salty roe (huehue get it?)…

Ok so I have no problem with people taking their time and being comfortable, if a tank is not comfy pulling too much, ok then we go slow, its just a dungeon I really don’t care but this dude would not shut up (he was the healer).

I main healers and normally I suggest to tanks that they can pull more if they want and Ill keep them alive but if they say they don’t feel like it or nothing at all then ok, I leave it, its neither here nor there.

Either way, I shut up but he started calling the tank braindead? Like dude settle your anger management, so I asked him why so mean?

My boy got sassy saying “and who are you /laughemote”?
Calling me a white knight but joke’s on him, I lack the thing between them thighs to be a knight.

Anyways I told him to go get therapy and he called me Sasuke.

I like Sailor moon and stuff but don’t speak fluent weeb, still learning so who is Sasuke?

A main character from the anime/manga "Naruto". His clan was wiped out by his older brother and he sought vengeance. Of course, he could citing other Sasukes from other manga but this is the most mainstream/popular one.

The only reason I can speculate given the context of your experience is that he was probably trying to infer that you're an emo/crybaby (Sasuke rarely cried but he did what most considered "whine" alot).

At the end of the day, you were sadly dealing with a maladjusted person.

[Hatfright]

At some point, my FC started referring to vuln stacks as "Tiger Cookies"; I'm not sure when it happened, but I love the term.

Like, "Oh, I see the tank was hungry; he's gone and gotten a plate of Tiger Cookies."

I love that, lol, gonna use this one.

[Hatfright]

Today we continued our unlocking spree. I swear I didn't have that much fun in O11 as today.
4 new people, 2 wipes, but noone left or even complained. Explainig did wonders. Comparing the numbers of tiger cookies on first try and the last made me feel proud for all theese sprouts. I wish more runs would be like that.