Why does everyone blame the tank?

[Darske]

I especially like it when dps in gear over ilvl 90 in low level dungeons give you shit for not holding aggro, when as a lower leveled tank it's really, really hard to keep up with them.

Like, for real people? You're in the full soldiery bard set. You should be able to tell that you're out damaging the ability to keep hate off you, you've made it far enough that even a dps should know how the emnity indicators work... Oh, right, they just don't care. :/

[Coth_X]

I especially like it when dps in gear over ilvl 90 in low level dungeons give you shit for not holding aggro, when as a lower leveled tank it's really, really hard to keep up with them.

Like, for real people? You're in the full soldiery bard set. You should be able to tell that you're out damaging the ability to keep hate off you, you've made it far enough that even a dps should know how the emnity indicators work... Oh, right, they just don't care. :/

This doesn't matter mostly in dungeons because of how dungeon level syncing works. If the tank isn't wearing jewelry and isn't keeping his left side up to date then he will have problems and this true whether his party is synced or not.

[Thaliss]

This doesn't matter mostly in dungeons because of how dungeon level syncing works. If the tank isn't wearing jewelry and isn't keeping his left side up to date then he will have problems and this true whether his party is synced or not.

It does matter a bit Tank leveling will not be geared at the maximum level for the instance but synced down 50s will be.
At lower levels if I thrown a tomahawk / shield lob and a dps started right away dpsing I could tell if he was 50 or not. (not to mention the dark zone for PLD before they get Shield Oath)
And as builder of the realm I did always kept jewelry and armor up to date :P

Not impossible to tank just a bit more spam, and no panic if mobs are running back and forth from you and other player.

In the end it is team work.

[Eye_Gore]

Being new to this game, probably would have never chose gladiator in the beginning had I known what it was all about. Not knowing what a tank role even was, no one ever said anything in the first few dungeons as to how I was playing until Halatali when I was paired with high ranking players. All they did was yell at me the whole time and offered no help, no one died though and we made it through, got all kinds of hate messages. I thought I just had to kill everything in there like I did previously, boy was I wrong.

Thats when I looked up what a tank role actually was and ended up here. Been trying to gather up pointers and as much info on tanks as I can. I think I'm getting better at it, atleast no hate messages since. I'll just stick to the lower level dungeons until I get better at it. So I just figured I'll keep at it and get better, but I can see why no one wants to play as a tank and also why the blame game goes on.

[Synestr]

I'll just stick to the lower level dungeons until I get better at it. So I just figured I'll keep at it and get better, but I can see why no one wants to play as a tank and also why the blame game goes on.

That's it right there. You will be a great tank due to your wanting to be a good one. Learn your role, abilities and skills. Practice makes perfect. I am sorry those D-bags heckled you instead of offering guidance. As a tank though, we develop a special stone-skin, a "ain't no body got time fo dat-skin".

May your shield arm stay strong sister, and your flash taste like SPAM!!

Syn

[Ashkendor]

That's it right there. You will be a great tank due to your wanting to be a good one. Learn your role, abilities and skills. Practice makes perfect. I am sorry those D-bags heckled you instead of offering guidance. As a tank though, we develop a special stone-skin, a "ain't no body got time fo dat-skin".

May your shield arm stay strong sister, and your flash taste like SPAM!!

Syn

Indeed. Those players should have offered constructive criticism and told you how to do it better instead. Tanking is a rough way to start the game, honestly. Going into a dungeon for the first time and being expected to already know the dungeon simply because of the role you chose is pretty stressful. In any case, it gets better. You will start to appreciate your queue times, especially at endgame. Not to mention you can seriously screw with people by simply leaving if they're jerks to you. There are times I gladly eat the half-hour simply because I know they'll probably sit in the dungeon forever waiting for a new tank.

[Coth_X]

It does matter a bit Tank leveling will not be geared at the maximum level for the instance but synced down 50s will be.
At lower levels if I thrown a tomahawk / shield lob and a dps started right away dpsing I could tell if he was 50 or not. (not to mention the dark zone for PLD before they get Shield Oath)
And as builder of the realm I did always kept jewelry and armor up to date :P

Not impossible to tank just a bit more spam, and no panic if mobs are running back and forth from you and other player.

In the end it is team work.

I leveled my War after the roulette was instated and never had any issues since I was reusing all my pld gear. I find that tanks that have trouble because someone there is a lvl50 in the party are the same people that have trouble anyways because they aren't pulling/flashing/overpowering/rotating combos/etc properly. I asked one of the war's in my fc and he was like just do 2 overpowers and then start doing enmity combos, and I never had any issues, I had started playing war in dungeons by doing overpower 3 times, but 2 was enough.