Shortage of Tank .......

[Astarica]

Yeah, about that. I religiously use those spells but there are incredible amounts of people who strangely prefer to spam weakly AOEs which wake the enemies right back up, even if you've marked them as locked-down targets.

Unless the tank is grossly undergeared, sleeping enemies is a waste of time. If you're doing something like Stone Vigil where it's actually possible for a bad group to run out of time, it's actually imperative that you DO AE all the packs of 3 mobs to get more time for Isgebind. Now of course you can also AE and get yourself or better yet the whole group wiped, but in that case your group almost certainly could not have beaten Isgebind before the time runs out so you didn't really lose anything.

[Khalus]

<----Am a tank, bored with End Game. Have stopped playing until 2.1, shall see if its any better then.

~meanwhile~

Am playing my "tank"{lvl 52 atm} in Rift and holy crap its so much better!

[Starcore]

I myself would love to tank

But i am nervous that i will mess up and come across the "Etrollist" players. It sounds ridiculous i know. But i am nervous lol.

Also can someone tell me what these badges are to the left of us? above your portrait. I had 4 blues ones the other day, now i have 1 red one. thanks

[Vantwan]

It's pretty simple really.

All the bad/mediocre tanks have quit tanking altogether, probably due to all the abuse they get which makes it difficult for them to actually learn their role.

All the good tanks are already in an FC, meaning they don't use the duty finder when doing dungeon runs.

The only time I use the duty finder when I'm on my paladin is when I'm feeling bored and want to carry people through ifrit and garuda HM since I can both main and off tank. Other than that I just ask for DDs from my FC or my friend list since at least then I know that I'm getting competent people in my party.

[OrwenMercer]

Being a Dragoon, I have 15 levels in Marauder cause of the whole pre-req thing. So last night I figured i'd give Tanking a try cause I main DPS and sometimes Healer. Thanks to that run of Sastasha, I understand why Tanks ragequit lol. It doesn't help that the 2 DPS were Archers and one of them was normally a lvl 50 Warrior. So yeah. =/ I might give it another try, but this time with my FC or just other players i know that know how to stick to their roles.

[Hilding]

That's exactly how I feel, even though my main is a tank. I'm scared of trying new dungeons with pugs, just because there are so many players that'll be really abusive you don't know the instance inside out and can keep aggro no matter how bananas dpsers are going. But, at the same my fear is probably much worse than there is need for. I've only had problems once or twice, most people have been really nice, giving me hints and tips so I have the chance to learn my class/roll and the dungeons.

With that said though, there really is a weird kind of pressure on tanks... Maybe it's just me that has been lucky playing with nice people.

[Grailer]

That's exactly how I feel, even though my main is a tank. I'm scared of trying new
With that said though, there really is a weird kind of pressure on tanks... Maybe it's just me that has been lucky playing with nice people.

Hard to hold agro when the dps have relic +1 and you don't .

Lucky for me I decided not to do fates , I did healer first so I could understand how healing worked . Then I made warrior and paladin both to 50 doing dungeons . Took along time but I mastered the skills needed to get me through rough times .


However , I never get tells saying hey my good friend want to help us tank such and such . If there is lack of tanks then maybe you just lack the ability to become friends with them . My friends list is pretty slim and Im in full darklight .

[Griffster]

I will Tank for my FC/LSes but not in Duty finder.

Also I would love to see any DPS player play level 50 warrior in end game. And they would find out how hard at times it is to keep hate and everyone safe.

When DPS in all 80+ items gear go all out a tank in item 55 and 70 gear doesn't have a chance of keeping hate. Yet they completely and forget about the threat meter. Or better yet don't even give the tank 2-3 actions to build a base amount of hate.

There is so much truth in this.

[KiraJ]

Maybe be nice to tanks and not call them "shit tank" for every mistake they do. This could make people want to play tank again more.
Seriously, some classes getting treaten like shit and you guys really wonder why no one wants to deal with that responsibility?

[Amyas]

What "wut"? According to Yoshi, WARs shouldn't be using Inner Beast whenever possible. So my job is to just... stand there, since I don't really have any defensive cooldowns I can pop.

I have to disagree. Pretty much always use your wrath stacks when you've got them (and *not* just on IB), it takes just a few seconds to get them back up without using your off gcd abilities :T Plus you've got infuriate (last one you want to use) and vengeance. On Garuda, you can always use SC as soon as the plumes pop in the first couple phases. Even as an ot I pop defiance on, infuriate, SC to get a lil bit of damage in there while they're grouped together.

Practice your rotations a bit more, try to run with the same healer that gets to know your patterns and you definitely will change your mind about it being a 'terrible pld' .