Whats with "other" tanks trying to steal hate?

[Senfei]

I've grouped with other Paladins who...

A. Immediately pulled Valefor and shoved its ass right into the squishies faces.
B. Aggro'd and DPSed skellis down right next to dragon, or furiously engaged w/ provoke and multiple shield lobs when I've already got it halfway to the back platform.
C. Become mute when it's time to tank adds before boss two.
D. "DPS" the whole time on boss two, even when they aren't ghosts.
E. Suddenly become extremely efficient and fast at FF14 when selecting a tower, appearing as if by magic by their chosen position before everyone else is even at the boss.
F. Stand in the back during final boss, baiting hand. Now, this is actually somewhat useful but you know the only reason they are "helping" is because they get to literally stand around and do nothing the entire fight.

... All in one run.

Actually, you know. I think it's time for me to don my original AF armor and an ilvl49 sword, and just run around whacking things in CT and acting clueless. Then I too can get the same rewards for minimal effort.

[wicked-one]

I've grouped with other Paladins who...

A. Immediately pulled Valefor and shoved its ass right into the squishies faces.
B. Aggro'd and DPSed skellis down right next to dragon, or furiously engaged w/ provoke and multiple shield lobs when I've already got it halfway to the back platform.
C. Become mute when it's time to tank adds before boss two.
D. "DPS" the whole time on boss two, even when they aren't ghosts.
E. Suddenly become extremely efficient and fast at FF14 when selecting a tower, appearing as if by magic by their chosen position before everyone else is even at the boss.
... All in one run.

well, sounds like a usual run in CT... or what i refer it to: ... the Labyrinth of Trolls...

I am always glad if i loot on the first run so i have to not do CT again for a Week =)

[CHunterX]

I've grouped with other Paladins who...

It's always the Paladins. It's like they don't know what Sword Oath is.

[Starvald]

F. Stand in the back during final boss, baiting hand. Now, this is actually somewhat useful but you know the only reason they are "helping" is because they get to literally stand around and do nothing the entire fight.

now, what would you suggest I do instead of baiting hands? Impress everyone with my awesome damage? Steal hate from MT cause I am going full hate combo all the time? Or stand in the back and get the hand in my face because as am actually one of the few that doesn't necessarily die when dps forget to kill it for a while?

CT Is already pretty boring for tanks as it is. I could run around like a headless chicken durin the last boss fight and do whatever. Or I stand in the back and do something remotely useful. Not necessarily the brunt Of the work here but useful.

[Senfei]

now, what would you suggest I do instead of baiting hands? Impress everyone with my awesome damage? Steal hate from MT cause I am going full hate combo all the time? Or stand in the back and get the hand in my face because as am actually one of the few that doesn't necessarily die when dps forget to kill it for a while?

CT Is already pretty boring for tanks as it is. I could run around like a headless chicken durin the last boss fight and do whatever. Or I stand in the back and do something remotely useful. Not necessarily the brunt Of the work here but useful.

You know, I did mention that doing that is somewhat useful. My point was, in the context of my post, some tanks will do everything in their power to do as little as possible in CT. It amuses me, because it often has them rapidly switching between appearing and acting lazy/stupid to hyper responsive and intuitive.

[SleepingBag]

I know rite?

What's with all of these Paladins who think they can just tank whatever they want?

[JeTaisNoobie]

Honestly I've accidentally done something like that, but I was DF-ing it alone as a warrior. I had absolutely no idea what was going on since it was my first time in CT, and everyone in my group were Japanese. So I did whatever I thought was right, which apparently was entirely wrong, till they wanted to boot me from the group. Lol! I even went ahead to translate my questions into Japanese but nobody bothered about me. We won the fight after all.

[Kiteless]

If I'm in CT on my WAR and someone tries to take aggro... I let them. Means I can sit back and pretty much AFK while glorymonger gets to do his thing.

[Kadas]

I love it when 5400 HP WARs (with Defiance) or equally geared (as in: naked) Paladins go as far as to Provoke mobs off me in CT. I just let them tank throughout the rest of the dungeon as I swap to DPS gear.

It usually involves tons of fun and sarcastic name-calling, makes for fun 1-hour long CTs

[JonBigwood]

It usually involves tons of fun and sarcastic name-calling, makes for fun 1-hour long CTs

It seems to me that 1 hour is the average duration of CT. If things go bad, it can last a lot longer.