Dear Tanks

[BrandoH]

Please, PLEASE, get some DPS accessories! It's your job to do damage and kill people, not hold aggro on a boss and mitigate attacks. If I see another PLD with Tank accessores and Shield Oath up, I'm gonna scream.

[Titans]

First I have ever heard of this. I've been tanking since release. Kinda hate that I'm the first to respond to this how to tank thread. Lol

[Grembo]

Please, PLEASE, get some DPS accessories! It's your job to do damage and kill people, not hold aggro on a boss and mitigate attacks. If I see another PLD with Tank accessores and Shield Oath up, I'm gonna scream.

If you tank the bosses then sure.

[Raenryong]

He means in PvP.

[BrandoH]

Yeah, I'm totally talking about taking bosses in the PVP subforum. -_- You're JUST the kinda people I was talkin about.

[Nenin]

"im gona harass heals"

Proceeds to smack all sleeping targets, gets kited by the healer for 4 minutes, and ends the game with under 1000 damage done.





In just under 300 games played I haven't been Covered by a PLD once. At this point I consider any tank who can go a whole game without breaking a 30s sleep to be legendary status.

[Enfarious]

Yeah I can't see why anyone isn't in a full damage build in pvp, sorry you've had people that think they should be using shield oath ...

... I haven't been Covered by a PLD once ...

Cover is all of about useless in PvP. It's range is far to short to actually help you for any real amount of time. Unless your asleep, and then me running over to pop cover is like saying, "Hey we're all lumped up now, come sleep me too." If your bound then chances are by the time I get in cover range your moving again and breaking cover. Tanks don't have a teleport of any kind, otherwise this might happen more.

Oh man Nenin, I agree. I watch streams of others playing, and I see so many DPS and tanks smacking all the sleeping targets. In their defense though, it's been very rare to see WHM/BLMs mark the target they are casting sleep on. Just making a macro to mark the sleeping target, and say in party that you are sleeping a target should help reduce this.

Seriously, marking targets is by far the simplest form of communication and can really make a team seem to actually be a team. Mark the sleepers, and more importantly mark the focus. Saying, "Ok get the BLM first." only works if there's only one BLM. Saying, "Ok kill casters." when facing a team of BLM, BLM, WHM, WAR is simply fail.
Use markers ... win.

[Nenin]

Cover is all of about useless in PvP. It's range is far to short to actually help you for any real amount of time. Unless your asleep, and then me running over to pop cover is like saying, "Hey we're all lumped up now, come sleep me too." If your bound then chances are by the time I get in cover range your moving again and breaking cover. Tanks don't have a teleport of any kind, otherwise this might happen more.


Seriously, marking targets is by far the simplest form of communication and can really make a team seem to actually be a team. Mark the sleepers, and more importantly mark the focus. Saying, "Ok get the BLM first." only works if there's only one BLM. Saying, "Ok kill casters." when facing a team of BLM, BLM, WHM, WAR is simply fail.
Use markers ... win.

Cover is a direct counter to physical heavy teams who rely on Holmgang to initiate their burst.


I always mark the primary target and discuss the general CC plan but plans change. It's virtually impossible for me to mark every slept target due to the AOE nature of CC. Do you really need me to mark every target hit by Freeze to know not to hit them? Freeze doesn't even have a primary target like Sleep. It's not like I have ample time to tab mark when I have a DRG, BRD, and WAR chasing me around.

[Omagana]

In just under 300 games played I haven't been Covered by a PLD once.

Perhaps there's a reason for this...

[Rawkzor]

Oh man Nenin, I agree. I watch streams of others playing, and I see so many DPS and tanks smacking all the sleeping targets. In their defense though, it's been very rare to see WHM/BLMs mark the target they are casting sleep on. Just making a macro to mark the sleeping target, and say in party that you are sleeping a target should help reduce this.