Calling MT huh?

[JimboTCB]

Yeah, Labyrinth is just a complete trainwreck, six tanks is far too many, and even when an encounter technically has stuff for them to do (like towers on Behemoth) nobody wants to do it. Yesterday I think I had at least three different tanks provoking Iron Giants off of each other and zero people on towers. Like, I really don't care who picks up adds, but don't go grabbing adds off of another tank who's already got them just so you can drag them halfway across the room and cleave all the meteors.

[Kiara]

Sorry to hear about all the tanking drama. This must be a datacenter-specific issue.

In all the runs I've had from CT (when it first launched) to ST to WoD, on our datacenter it's always:

B Alliance = MT

Then other Alliances are tasked with other stuff, like back when CT1 was a thing, C Alliance would always take the Iron Giants on King Behemoth, and now on WoD, C Alliance is usually Wolfsbane duty for Cerberus.

[Kumabear76]

As a bit of additional irony, I was in LotA yesterday, doing my OT thing. Got to King Behemoth. Other WAR in my party calls Iron Giants. Awesome. I plop down by a tower and prepare to push a button.

What I didn't expect was to sprint between three towers to push buttons. 6 tanks. One Main, One Off-tank. That leaves 4 tanks to handle four towers. So where the HELL were the other two tanks? Oh yeah, fighting the main tank for hate.

... Idiots.

... and I really hate calling people names in this game.

[MichaelAngelus]

Although it would seem like common sense for a tank to identify an already tanked target and leave it alone, some players choose to disregard their role in the overall encounter, and play their own mini-games of "superiority" against other tank players, not realizing that their behavior quickly makes the rest of us aware of their level of maturity.

On ST and WoD I tend to take charge of MT spot if the fight is out of control. I enjoy playing it by ear and tanking in a way where an otherwise routine encounter can still hold an element of unpredictability.
If I do notice that the other 2 tanks are still gearing up, I offer them the choice, this way I am not undermining their skill as a player with assumptions, while allowing them to enjoy their game however they wish.
Please realize that if we want to have a great time in a player community who is fun, kind and helpful, we are responsible to hold those standards for ourselves. To everyone else, YOU are "the other guy"

[Niurok]

If I can tell i have better gear then I just do the tanking, if not then I try to out threat anyways unless it's the hell hound or final boss.

[Defteros]

it's kinda sad how during Towers runs, tanks tend to stand still and do nothing waiting for god knows what, when we are at the trash room...

but they are so quick to pull aggro on bosses

just as sad as Tanks that wait for a divine intervention or something during light farm parties, and then preceed to provoke off the other tank as soon as he pulls.

(or use flash on Garuda to try to steal aggro from the MT D: )

[Kuwaitum]

I usually run as a Whitemage (i122) in CT runs, I rarely go as a Warrior (i130) due to the fact of fight over MT.

In some cases I MT'ed the full raid since I was nominated, otherwise I OT like a boss picking the adds when the other two-five tanks fight over MT and try to aggro the Boss, while no one of them pick up the adds.

[Whiteroom]

Had an OT drop a prominence and a lighting bolt on me during the five headed dragon a couple of nights back.

I didn't even want MT in there, I dislike it, OT is more fun and important in there. But iI asked who was going to be main, and they waited so long without replying that a dps pulled and I had to pick up the boss. What do they do? Let me get a ROH off, then come try to steal hate the whole fight. Every single battle that instance was the same...

[Sida]

As a healer, my respect goes to OTs who actually pick up adds which, sadly, tends to be a rarity. Sure, being main tank is important job, someone has to do it. But the squishies don't want to tank everything else that finds them delicious.

[Slateboard]

What bothers me is when they fight so hard to take hate from you, then you let them MT.

Then they die and the boss comes at you wherever you are doing OT things.