Why no one tanks...

[Sotek]

I've never had anyone be particularly rude to me. As anything.

If anything, people are more polite to me when I'm on Warrior than they are when I'm on Healer/DPS.

[Lordfurious]

I've never had anyone be particularly rude to me. As anything.

If anything, people are more polite to me when I'm on Warrior than they are when I'm on Healer/DPS.

Yes Warriors have amazing low level hate. Paladin's are the primary target of animosity. Paladin's lose hate easily, and regain hate with some degree of difficulty. I never marked as a Warrior, because it didn't matter. Good luck pulling off a good warrior. As a Paladin in low level I have to mark the first 1 or 2, or it quickly becomes messy. I really hope they fix Paladins in low level dungeons. I have seen item level 91 tanks have issues in low level dungeons due to the level sync.

[CrAZYVIC]

If you play as Tank Class you have the responsability of lead the way, Lead of run in most the cases and the life of your party depends of you. If you fail the entire group will die.

If you dont have "Leadership" Skills playing as tank will be insane difficult.

classifyng the dificulty based on Gaming Skills necessary, Knowledge and responsability.

Tank Jobs

Paladin - ★★★★★★
Warrior - ★★★★★

Healer job

Any Healer Job - ★★★★★

DPS jobs. Im Taking in consideration only the DPS Parse their Dungeons.

Mele DPS - ★★★
RA DPS - ★

In conclusion for all the Newbies Tanks

The constructive criticism is always welcome and you must Listen and learn of people know more than you. The Negative criticism can be happily ignored. Play with the purpose of learn and get better for yourself, dont play for "LIKE" to the others.

[Lordfurious]

I think your stars are wrong melee DPS 2 stars Warrior 1 star. Paladins and healers 5 stars.

[darzok]

I hate tanking for Pugs since half the time the dps are brain dead and or rude if you tell them how to do the fight.

If you go to say CT you end up having a tank free for all on mobs half the time that will surly escalate quickly in to some one calling others noobs or worse.

Then any tiny little error made having a nice high risk of been called a noob or bad tank.

The player base is just nasty to tanks and yet fails to work out why tanks join a FC and stop playing with pugs.

[Mogi]

Ill agree that i do see tanks get yelled at a lot for something that was not there prob but when you do start doing lvl 50 runs ppl are just more rude to everyone not just tanks hell some ppl just wanna rush other's attack random monsters like it's free for all. But at the end of the day it's the party your with that can make things good or bad so 1 play with ppl you know or 2 blast music and let the ignorance or rude ppl go by

[JanVanding]

For every coin there is two sides.

I may only have been playing two weeks (Vet MMOer however) but here's what I've noticed:

1. Some players are just awful, they are rude and just nasty. Ive seen Tanks behave jerkishly when I told them I'm new yet they go quiet when they realise I know what I'm doing.

2. Trolls roll tanks the most, why? Because they will always get a group of people they can troll. Ive experienced this 3 times already and every time it was a "Tank".

3. Some people may have ran into the trolls of point 2 and be having a bad day.

4. Some folks generally are new and have no idea how hate generation works, on the flipside they may know exactly how thus refer to point 2.

Its down to us to start fostering better relations and Blacklisting the trolls so the negative cycle cannot repeat.

[Ryios]

I see a lot of people in this thread saying people don't tank because of attutude, trolls, and other people etc. When in reality thats a very small reason. The stuff I posted is 90% of it. We don't tank because we don't need to. We run bcb and get locked out, our one CT drop for the week, and 3 EM primals and were done, nothing else to tank. But theres plenty of stuff to do on our alts.

A new loot system like loot master, or free for all would fix that, then I would tank all the time and roll on loot with everyone else. Don't get me wrong though. Free For All would only be for PT Finder Farms and Queing in the Duty Finder. And you would have to agree to join a run set to free for all up front.

E.g. I imagine an option on the duty finder for loot modes

-Need Before Greed (what we have now)
-Free For All (Anyone can need anything that drops)
-Loot Master (One person is in charge of loot distribution 'PreMades Only').

It's not that I don't want to tank, its that I want to gear my BLM and me being on my BLM when I have an IL90 Tank doesn't solve any problems.

[Kewitt]

Warrior is my main job.
I MT lots of stuff.

Tanks have to be on the ball 100% of the time.
Speed run. Tank needs to know what to do.
Bosses, Tank needs to know what's coming up to pop a cool down before it happens.
Off tanking needs to know when to jump in.

KB, I MT I OT I get NE, Last 4 runs I did where I was not the MT the MT died. I jumped in Provoked. Started to MT, Told my hubby to take over tower I was controlling.

Now as a MNK... Go in without any real care in the world and just hit my marcos over and over and move side to back repeat.

Now as for WHM, Cure I II and rarely III but III is more usefull now., Medica I and II But never II before a mob spawns because then I get regen agro.

So when I want to play without caring what is going on just laid back and chilling. I pick MNK.

[Doki]

The only time I've ever had trouble as a PLD is when the DPS do something unexpected, like run off and hit something they aren't supposed to, and even then I can usually recover without too much trouble. Most of the time it's just some dork trying to rush through an instance, insisting on a speed run in a DF group. Honestly if I was going to do a speed run I wouldn't be using DF in the first place >_>