Why no one tanks...

[LoLo]

feels

I had to remove what you said so that I could post my comment because of the word limit. I was also calling it how I see it, you can take offensive but maybe you should stop getting emotional in your comments? Reacting/commenting before reading the full comment is a knee-jerk response.

It is very easy to take hate off DD, unless you are like ilvl 65 and everyone else is ilvl 85+. If that is the case, no one would even ask you to main tank and if the MT dies there are other tanks to pick up the slack. If in some universe you are tanking MT in CT as a ilvl65 for everything how hard is it to combo where the mob is until the mod turns to you because you have gain hate and then move the mob into place? I've seen this done countless times. But honestly at ilvl 65 the mob wont turn if your party has all ilvl85+ and in that case you should be mad at yourself for not being geared to MT but demanding to MT. Know what you can do and proceed from there. MT when your gear allows you to MT.

[yondaimeflash]

I couldn't fit all your text and mine Kazamoto but lol I do miss the joy toy to lol and yeah your right that in dungeons the whole group is moving so no need for pulls from the dps. Though I still do it in fates lol. I do miss some of the game mechanics of 11. But all good fun lol.

[Versiroth]

At max level, tanking can be either really fun or very stressful. Most stress comes when you're attempting to learn a new fight and you have impatient people that would rather scream at you than let you know how to correct what you're doing wrong. If more people would try to help instead of simply raging, then more tanks would be in the queue. If you're a person who constantly stresses out your tanks by calling them bads/being completely unforgiving when they mess up, etc, then stop complaining that your queues are too long.

[ApolloGenX]

Two different types of challenge:

Tanking- Encounter challenges/positioning/agro

Healing - Encounter challenges/dynamic challenge of healing avoidable damage (dps controls this challenge by avoiding or not)

Tanking Challenges are the most obvious when failed, but can almost all be learned. They are fairly static... but if you mess up- you get called out and harassed.

Healing challenges are dynamic and can't all be learned away, since it is variable, based on party performance... but if you do mess up, you have an alibi that the dps shares the blame since they should avoid better - tank dies and it's just your fault.

Both of these jobs have challenges. Personally, I think healing is the more challenging of the two, but tanking has the more severe social consequences of error.

[Doo]

Both of these jobs have challenges. Personally, I think healing is the more challenging of the two, but tanking has the more severe social consequences of error.

Depends on the fight really.
Garuda - Pld
Ultima/Titan HM - Healer

But most of the time you can go in as a healer without knowing the fight and do fine but it's not possible to for a tank a majority of time.

[EdwinLi]

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ya that is one of the issues with tanking. However, when DPS complain about me not keeping aggro when they're the ones not targeting my Marked #1 targets I just say to them...

[yondaimeflash]

I came from a dps back ground but I have to disagree with you there CUTS3R (F'lhinna Kutseru) I am a lvl 46 whm and lvl 16 mrd and gla. As I also am playing all 3 roles I find it that the tank is the one with the most responsibility. Given I know without the healer no one could survive but if not for the tank the dps or the healers wouldn't survive. But it is my opinion and we are all entitled to our own ^.^

[yondaimeflash]

You know the one thing though that I find really funny is the tanks that get all mad and complainy because the dps or who ever it was pulled. First off I know this game is nothing like 11 in a lot of way and others it is. But last I checked in 11 and other MMOs I played the tank wasn't the one pulling it was the kiting dps or dps that could in general. It isn't that hard to take hate (enmity) off of that dps that do that anyway. (have a feeling im about to get a lot of hate lmao)

[Arkista]

Snip

Last I checked Tanking in FFXI was way more fun than XIV.

[yondaimeflash]

Last I checked Tanking in FFXI was way more fun than XIV.

Lol love how you quoted me saying snip when I know I didn't say that and idk I never tanked in 11 I was 8 different jobs not one of them a tank. ^.^