I just need to rant somewhere. I just had the absolute worst experience with Ifrit HM when I was going to do an episode for that battle for my channel. Just for reference, my non-LP WAR is around i118 and I pretty much do everything on my tank, so I have some experience with how to tank.

And before anyone bothers, yes, I will accept if you want to tell me I am whining, am a crybaby, need to lrn2play, some n00b that wants everything handed to them, come up with whatever insult you feel like. I'm not going to argue despite that I actually disagree. I'm posting because I just need to vent and that's all I care about.

So I'm freshly 50. I'm not horribly geared, i67 for an i49 battle. The other tank was actually lower than I was, but the fight starts with the DRG pulling, and then running around like an idiot, making it difficult (No, I don't have Provoke, yes, I should have it, but again, IT'S IFRIT HM. When was the last time you had to use Provoke?) so everything is already going to hell from the start.

So the other tank started yelling at me for not having Provoke. Fine, whatever. They kept losing hate anyways because Provoke won't really make a difference when everyone is over 40 ilvls higher than you. I say that, but I was 100% confident I could've held it if the damn DRG didn't decide he wanted to pull. I was just waiting for Protect.

So as the fight went on, the DPS started telling me off because they had more HP than I did, that I was bad, and that I should get my i110 gear before I even try again.

Just...ugh. Worst experience I've ever had in the game. We nearly wiped even, I had to tell healers twice to use the LB, because they ignored me, despite the fact that all of the DPS were down. So their precious "more HP than me" didn't help them anyways.

Basically what I'm saying is, if you want to pull it, you get to tank the damn thing. It doesn't even take Darklight gear to down Ifrit HM, so there's no reason to demand everyone have i110 gear for it (Why the hell would anyone do it outside of roulette if they weren't trying to get the weapon to upgrade?). And if I ever lead a raid group, if I rewatched the part of the video I did record before I cut it off, I would never, ever trust you in my raids because you're bad if you need that high of ilvl before doing the biggest joke fight in the game.

Okay, I'm done. Don't feel much better, but meh. It's out there now.