Ill be honest, people need to grow a thicker skin...

Originally Posted by Eye_Gore View Post
Imagine looking for a job and you come across this:
Tanks needed:
Are you looking for an exciting career? Do you like to be yelled at, laughed at, belittled, berated with obscenities, told you are not good enough, blamed for failures of your group, told to find a new job, all while trying to lead a group through a group of hostile enemies? Have we got the job for you.
These lines should flash across the screen whenever people want to try out tanking jobs... If the answer is no to any of these, then you are not really suited for tanking outside of a safe FC environment....
Tanking is not more difficult, doesn't require more awareness(just awareness) not more complicated than other jobs, but you will more often than not get blamed if things go sour... Also, you are more likely to notice other peoples lazyness and mistakes(healer not healing ---> tank will notice this, dps pulling ---> tank will notice this, no aoe/slow dps --> tank will notice this... I could keep going with this...)

Also, you have been dps for 2 years and done the dungoens a million times and still dont know your way around them... talk about tunnelvision...

Bottomline: If you accept that players will blame you for stuff from time to time, although it might not be your fault, you will have no problem tanking... dont let stuff get to you, just think of it as practice...You will be a fierce tanking machine in no time..