Tank Appreciation Thread

[rawker]

As the title states, I would just deviate a bit and just say that it always makes me VERY happy whenever I DF and have this specific party setup:

• PLD(me)
• SCH(Eos users, I prefer more, since they stay in CS for extended periods of time)
• BLM
• SMN

Everything just melts so fast.

[Twilite]

Because white mages and asts don't have pets healing for them. And blmx2 is unmatched.

[Awful]

As someone who mains a tank it sucks sometimes when you give a person tips in a non aggressive way and they completely explode at you I had a tank sit in front of first boss after a wipe explaining word for word what he said and did then blamed it on the healer (myself). What he was doing was not dodging lightning, not using CDs and not using shield oath as he was getting hit like a truck and not dodging things, not tanking the adds. It was a mess. During last boss the tank blamed me when it was last boss in the Aery no one dps'd me out of the pillar, I even went right into the boss in the middle to help the melee dps). But there are the good tanks I get while lvling my Ast recently that really know how to pull and use CDS and get my commend tbh though it's more of a DPS issue for myself. I rarely get bad tanks in my DF just bad DPS.

[T2teddy]

This thread has made me think about playing on my PLD character again. I stopped playing him because it seemed like I was running into so many jerks who would berate me for not speed running. I simply can't due to severe arthritis, so smaller pulls is my style.
Had one healer [wearing law and ESO and 200 weapon, while I was just in i140ish white HQ and questing greens with a 133 HQ weapon] who told me unless I mass pulled she wouldn't heal me, at which point I said 'Fine by me, but if you get aggro don't expect me to pull it off you now that you've drawn that line in the sand.'
She was dying within 30 seconds because She pulled a ton of mobs while I was working on the 5 or so I'd already pulled. The two dps pretty much cracked up laughing.