What to expect when playing the Tank role and what other players expect from you!

[ZeusLaser]

What to expect when starting to play the tank role in MMO's

And what players will expect from you when playing the tank role

Tips on making it as a tank



Any contribution would be great, do so in the comments below!

[DeeJayImut]

what i expect:
follow my mark
dont agro first

what they expect:
idk, ask them

but too bad, here tanks are squishy jelly, hp drains like water, healer need constant attention, im feeling like not being a tank

[Altimis]

What to expect Tank role in MMO

-Make it clear that I am Tank, not drunkard playing game atm
-You will not steal my target no matter what and I don't need to tell you do not steal my target, do that and this iron bat goes on your head
-I must be the first to lead, not others
-I expect target to die asap

[Eightbit]

but too bad, here tanks are squishy jelly, hp drains like water, healer need constant attention, im feeling like not being a tank

That is why I actually like this game, I'm not invincible. It is part of the fun when a party comes together like little gears and all works well. I keep the bad stuff on me, healer keeps me on the bad stuff, dps ensures things die in a timely manner not to strain either me or the healer. Yeah I know a lot of games use the trinity system, but I have seen so many where the tank isn't needed, the healer just has to occasionally toss out heals, or the tank has no chance of loosing aggro. By making everything feel weaker SE has brought some base party mechanics back.

[Paikis]

There are two sides to tanking. What you have described applies mostly to FC groups. DF groups are a different animal.

[Grailer]

What players expect from me as a tank .

1. I pull entire zone including bosses if possible , and not die , not need heals , do decent dps and hold agro to everything while stunning mobs and silencing them .
2. I also will let DPS pull mobs and take agro off them before they take a single pixel of damage.
3. The healer will DPS and never have to heal me .
4. Every run will be a new world record speed run .
5. In Coil no one will ever die , if they die its tanks fault .
6. Even on content no one even the tank has not done , nor anyone in the world , you must know fight regardless.

Yep probably missed a lot more but that sums it up I guess

[Paikis]

What players expect from me as a tank .

1. I pull entire zone including bosses if possible , and not die , not need heals , do decent dps and hold agro to everything while stunning mobs and silencing them .
2. I also will let DPS pull mobs and take agro off them before they take a single pixel of damage.
3. The healer will DPS and never have to heal me .
4. Every run will be a new world record speed run .
5. In Coil no one will ever die , if they die its tanks fault .
6. Even on content no one even the tank has not done , nor anyone in the world , you must know fight regardless.

Yep probably missed a lot more but that sums it up I guess

And this is the other half, what PUGs want their tanks to do.

[Gandora]

And this is the other half, what PUGs want their tanks to do.

This so much. When people use DF, they should not expect the others players in the party to adopt their own personal playstyle. I don't expect anyone to adapt to me, but I ask for the party to play logicaly.

I.e: Do not start firing/hiting while I run with aggro.
-- Do not cast things such as "Stoneskin" when I start runing to aggro the mobs around.
-- If you are a DD that use mainly single target attacks please stick to my target. (That one should be obvious.. if everyone hit one mob its life will go down faster & then we take the next one, I saw some DDs argue with me often about that & call me a bad tank over it. Dunno if it was for pride or if it was just them being stupid.)

[Stonie]

i'm a jerk to derpy tanks in DF when leveling, it's doing them a favor cuz they need to learn their rolls though. if i'm pulling smaller groups because your dps isn't quite on par and you attack off target and get hate. i can get the hate and will if it is the first few offences but after awhile and inform the healer not to heal them, and pull hate when the dps dies. this normally gets them to pay attention. although this is pre level 50 stuff, also pre level 50 if a healer is blowing all mana every fight on dps i don't take kindly to it. i toss out alitlte dps as healer myself cuz sometimes the healing really isn't needed but when you are in a dungeon that has roamers and whatnot and your healer has to wait a minute before fighting antoher fight it is promlematic

[Grailer]

the problem is u cant please everyone .

healer hates me pulling too much . DPS hate me pulling too little .. not going fast enough, healer cant keep up . DPS whine because you can't hold agro even , tank angry dps on wrong target . Didn't stun , didn't sleep , making stupid remarks in chat.

Tank rages and has to go for toilet break , 30 mins later tank still on toilet break ... rage rage rage .. people leave tank magically comes back , gets more party members, run goes sweet . rage rage rage . .