I'm getting more sour ...

[Yhoiryo]

The more I tank. I know the best thing is to probably move onto a dps or healing job but I love tanking.

I wish people would just consider what they're doing before they do it. Tanking isn't stressful, it's the people you party with that make it stressful.

[Enkidoh]

I know how you feel... the toxicity of a large portion of the player base means I now refuse to party with anyone other than my friends and family. Yes that means I've basically hit a roadblock story wise and that it means I'll never have BiS gear or never do endgame, but not using DF/PF/roulette farming etc is a small price to pay to securing my own sanity and enjoyment in this game. Especially this ridiculous and virulent 'lolPLD' mentality going around at the moment. *sighs sadly*

As much as I want to be the epitome of this trope, more and more I find myself descending into this one instead.

[Lantia]

The more I tank. I know the best thing is to probably move onto a dps or healing job but I love tanking.

I wish people would just consider what they're doing before they do it. Tanking isn't stressful, it's the people you party with that make it stressful.

Ignore Chat and do not help DPS which would like to have aggro while you are still in trash. They will learn it or kick you... which is ok as you can enter a dungeon much more quicker.
Had also a very "social" healer on the weekend:
Lv 51 dungeon (do not know the english name) a mate of my guild was running with me and switched to the ghost suite from halloween. I had to laugh so hard that I failed my skills and movement and we wiped on first trash.
We both laugh and from this point everything was smooth (no aggro lose, no wipes) beside of one thing: Healing.
Right before the first boss the healer tried to kick me with the notice: Eat to much dmg. I checked his equip and he was running with Lv 41 equip in that dungeon... sure only two parts but this was dropping the healing so much I was not beliving he was trying to kick me.
After I explained him he can buy iLvl 115 EQ in Ishgard which is way better then his current EQ his yelled: BUT NOT IN HQ!
So I explained him once again that even nonHQ is better then his current piece of crap.

Long story short: Kicked him and succesfully finished the dungeon with the next healer without any stress.

[MihaelB]

Every role has its issues

[Yhoiryo]

I know how you feel... the toxicity of a large portion of the player base means I now refuse to party with anyone other than my friends and family. Yes that means I've basically hit a roadblock story wise and that it means I'll never have BiS gear or never do endgame, but not using DF/PF/roulette farming etc is a small price to pay to securing my own sanity and enjoyment in this game. Especially this ridiculous and virulent 'lolPLD' mentality going around at the moment. *sighs sadly*

As much as I want to be the epitome of this trope, more and more I find myself descending into this one instead.

That sour knight got me hah.

Sadly I don't really have a group of friends or a FC to run with as of late so I'm stuck with running DF for most anything. I generally just stay quiet to avoid said toxic players, no reason to add fuel to the fire.

[pikster]

The more I tank. I know the best thing is to probably move onto a dps or healing job but I love tanking.

I wish people would just consider what they're doing before they do it. Tanking isn't stressful, it's the people you party with that make it stressful.

Here Here buddy!

When it goes smoothly you feel like a one man army, but the DPS that don't think hitting the same enemy as you would be prudent and the other PT members "knowing better than you" and pulling extra groups in when you are not comfortable, the healers running for a chest instead of following you and healing.

They ruin it for me sometimes and make me rage on to a DPS. Stay the course, remember they will always need a tank...

[hagare]

Here Here buddy!

When it goes smoothly you feel like a one man army, but the DPS that don't think hitting the same enemy as you would be prudent and the other PT members "knowing better than you" and pulling extra groups in when you are not comfortable, the healers running for a chest instead of following you and healing.

They ruin it for me sometimes and make me rage on to a DPS. Stay the course, remember they will always need a tank...

but did you die?

[dragorian]

The more I tank. I know the best thing is to probably move onto a dps or healing job but I love tanking.

I wish people would just consider what they're doing before they do it. Tanking isn't stressful, it's the people you party with that make it stressful.

I know the feeling I main multiple jobs as a tank is find ppl can't attack marked or other pull. As a healer tanks run ahead without buffs and not spected right same as healers,dps the problem is that ppl don't look nor online to figure what stats to put points and they don't read their skills and put in right order and they fail miserably and it gets to the point I just leave and waste 30 min of my time

[Warlyx]

hahaha , yeah it happens to me too when i tank for a while, but i haven tanked anything in HW

Now i usually brd when raiding and heal on my sch on DF ,and i have my share of "bad dps" than make me want to punch lalas , and the tanks that dont want to use CDs , and u are there healing like mad , sweating and praying the twelve for an adloquium crit to have some breathing room :P

[Amiaze]

The more I tank. I know the best thing is to probably move onto a dps or healing job but I love tanking.

I wish people would just consider what they're doing before they do it. Tanking isn't stressful, it's the people you party with that make it stressful.

It's just tank-rage settling in. Don't let it bother you. As a healer, I normally just shake my head in awe and amazement when people do things to kill themselves or when a party falls apart. I care, but I don't throw myself into the line of fire.

As a tank, I end up cursing like a sailor. It just makes you watch your party and consider who they are and what they're doing that much more. It'll help you a lot when/if you get into a static or Savage content.