Why no one tanks...

[yondaimeflash]

People that quote others with "snip" in the quote are not attacking them. They have to do that so that they do not go over the word limit. The person didn't mean any harm.

ah ok cool my bad then ^^

[Rochetm]

Watch all the bad "alt" tanks CT is full of.... that is why I don't tank and many other good tanks don't.

Constantly pulling crap off of us. Constantly turning baddies the wrong way. "I GOT IRON GIANT"... followed by fail tank chasing giant around... or fail tank holding it in the middle of the raid. "I GOT KB"... followed by fail tank standing in everything... no cooldowns. THen there is the tank just pulled KB time to medica II healers that place is loaded with. I could go on all day about the stupid we deal with in there.

Doesn't help that Tanks and healers have shorter queues so dps that suck at tank/healing join that queue and make everything worse for everyone.

For whatever reason SE decided to make FFXIV tanks very weak. Plds and War have very little control over if they live or not. No mater how good you are there is no making up for bad dps or bad healers.

[ErikMynhier]

I love tanking, most people hate the responsibility. Parties are cruel to tanks who fail.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

Tanks are treated horribly in this game. So many self entitled kids that run in and face pull everything, you pick it all up, use all your defensive cooldowns and die cause the DPS is auto attacking.

Then said DPS complains for 30 minutes about the tank being bad, and gets you kicked from the party.

your right i did low level daily and people rip into tanks guys need be kind tell them what doing wrong end with hey we have start some were will get though it help make more tanks not scare more away

[Sciwolf]

Whenever someone talks a lot of trash to tanks I look them up and most of the time they dont have a lvl 50 tank.

[Zakalwe]

If by effort, you mean *slightly* more than is required for DPS jobs, sure. It does not require more effort than healing, and it certainly amounts to no effort when compared to tanking anywhere else. You can literally tank in your sleep and still get most things done.

Literally? Methinks you mean figuratively, unless you do actually literally tank with your forehead crashed down on the keyboard while drooling on the space bar. Hehe...

[Kresciel]

Don't know why people keep saying healing requires most effort. I can pretty much heal and watch streams at the same time from x primals to coil (except turn 5 just because death sentence).

[Kyriea]

Some DPS just can't understand that them pulling does not make the dungeon any quicker, it takes longer for a tank to then get the mobs off you and reposition them where all DPS can do most damage and is definitely not more efficient.

[Jyoeru]

Started out as a WHM. Capped that, then started leveling a Bard, and now my MRD is almost 50. I have gotten more praise and happy people from being a tank than I got in the other roles. I have been flamed as a healer more than other roles. I still heal because I like the role. Tanking, honestly, has never given me any grief. I have screwed up as a tank, and I admit it, and work to fix it. People have never said anything mean to me, even when I was really botching a pull.

The only tanks I have ever seen get grief are the really bad tanks. I think most people appreciate tanks because 30minutes waiting for a dungeon is sad. But, tanks can also be huge jerks (like when they go in-progress dungeon fishing).

That having been said, I am one of those tanks who plays like a healer; who tries to tank the best way possible to help my healer have a smoother run. I fix peoples' mistakes. I never brag about it. And I am always polite (until someone is particularly a jerk to me). I disagree with this thread's tone from experience.

[Evangela]

Tanks always complain about everything. So they're getting treated horribly.