Is this acceptable behaviors for a Tank?

[Reaperking386]

As a tank I only pull mass when there is no level sync. Usually when lvled sync I will take my time and wait for the healer to give me the go to pull more. I never eat more than I can handle.

[Twilite]

As a tank I only pull mass when there is no level sync. Usually when lvled sync I will take my time and wait for the healer to give me the go to pull more. I never eat more than I can handle.

This right here is the important thing. If the tank himself cannot handle big pull, it doesn't matter if the healer is ready or not.

Anyway, yeah I've met a few that wont even wait for protect. Generally I try to make sure I'm not to far behind them. Well sprint if necessary.

[Archaell]

Anyway, yeah I've met a few that wont even wait for protect. Generally I try to make sure I'm not to far behind them. Well sprint if necessary.

It's even worse when they just rush to fight the boss, while it takes you and other party members 8 seconds to just reach the barrier...

Sometimes I wonder if I should stay outside and wait to see what happens.

[Razem5791]

Greetings fellaz.

I've been a tank for 10 years on WOW until I decided to cancel sub. I also tanked in FF11 as a WAR/NIN. And I've been fully a paladin (only class I play so far in FF14). I'm telling you this so I hope to give a genuine opinion on this matter.
Everytime I tank, I never pull mass when I team up with players that I don't know. I only pull mass when I team up with people that I know or I have ever played with. I like to rush a bit but only if the surrounding are safe enough around everyone : after all, as a tank, we are supposed to engage the battlefield first but we are also the last one to leave it. Then again, as a healer, you have to, at times, give the rythm of the run : you are the healer so you are mostly the one to tell that you can be able to resist any kind of stress. Yet that tank was supposed to see that too. So he sounded to confident for his own good. But is it proper to actually punish the other players because of that tank ?

[Derio]

Just a bad tank. Move on.

[Negafox]

As soon as the dungeon started the Tank RAN up ahead without me finishing casting Protect or Stoneskin II and started to pull ALL of the adds

I would have immediately called out the tank on this. This is your first red flag that the tank thinks the party should cater to them just because the role is in demand. I have no problem kicking a bad or toxic tank.

[Razem5791]

LOL, I really hope that not all tanks think that way

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

You just got a bad, incompetent tank. That's all.

[Amiaze]

In short, sounds like you got someone who doesn't deserve to tank. I hate to say such a thing, but I cannot stand players that do not consider their party members like that. Coming from someone who mains healer, if a tank runs off before I can cast my buffs, they're in their own. It doesn't mean I won't heal them, but I'll certainly be spending more time DPSing and healing other party members. The same goes for tanks who pull bosses/mobs before I can equip new gear after a loot drop or who constantly pull huge mobs when I have virtually no MP.

That's when I start letting their health fall into the danger zone before healing. And if they get upset, they die.

[Razem5791]

tanks and healers are supposed to work together. It's not an obligation yet it is common sense. Still, you can't say that all tanks are like that ? I mean it's not like I defend that tank, but surely you know that this guy is among the very few to be like that ?