Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Full vit, Full-time Defiance Warrior, Slow pulling all of Arboetum, with marks, with 2 smn's and a sch. 45 minutes of my life I will never get back.

[bounddreamer]

Full vit, Full-time Defiance Warrior, Slow pulling all of Arboetum, with marks, with 2 smn's and a sch. 45 minutes of my life I will never get back.

That's not a tank horror story. That's a dps horror story.

[Hayward]

That's not a tank horror story. That's a parser-obsessed dps horror story.

Fixed for accuracy. You're welcome.

[Jpec07]

On my DRK, once I hit 60, I queued with my FC leader's also-fresh-to-60 AST into Fractal Continuum. We'd done Neverreap already with an excellent DRG and SMN who managed to whittle things down, all while being conscious of my sword from the Great Gubal Library, and the lack of enmity it could generate. But in Fractal, somehow, we got paired with two BRDs. Two BRDs who were friends, and who were somehow still wearing 115/120 gear. One of their bows was 145, the other was 133. And somehow, they met the iLvl minimum. They explained that they were new, and so before each pull, I would explain what was going to happen. They managed to dodge AoE with moderate success, but were still taking a lot of damage--and weren't doing much themselves, either. I tried dropping Grit a couple times to help out on bosses, but after watching the healer nearly OOM trying to keep me up (and taking a lashing in /fc), I realized I wasn't geared enough for that.

Finally, with 30 minutes left on the clock, we get to the last boss.

The Bards could literally not burn the adds down in time. Even with me Plunging to the adds to help out, and our healer staying in Cleric Stance, we couldn't burn them down. We tried for another 25 minutes, wiping repeatedly, before we finally vote-abandoned.

Another time on my PLD, once I breached iLvl 200, I was running Neverreap with an FC-mate who'd just gotten to 60 on his DRG, and wanted to start gearing. We went with our FC WHM, and we got paired with a level 60 Archer.

Not a Bard, an Archer. Equipped with what appeared to be a roleplaying or glamour set, mixed and matched from level 30-40 content.

It was the first time I ever spent an entire dungeon in Sword Oath, and we only just barely beat the soft enrage on the second boss. Waukkeon was a huge pain, too, because the phase where he swims around and runs people over lasted about 3 minutes each time it happened, and the Archer must have died at least four times.

He thanked us before he left, before we could comment anything about the fact that he had his wrong set on.

The worst part was that the gear that dropped was something nobody could use, and I'd already Eso capped for the week.

Full vit, Full-time Defiance Warrior, Slow pulling all of Arboetum, with marks, with 2 smn's and a sch. 45 minutes of my life I will never get back.

So...wait, who were you in this story? o.O

EDIT: Thought of another. Any time I get into content with an Arcanist or Summoner who keeps amber carbuncle or Titan-egi out (bonus points if they start pulling before you can get out a /p Hello!). Or any time a DRG thinks pulling ahead is fun.

[JoelStrife]

Pad died on titan ex and I got blown off the edge lol bad times :/

[Veralidaine]

Just going to share one I've already posted in the dungeon stories thread:

So, let me preface this to say, this morning I was NOT in a hurry. I had sufficient time before I had to get ready for work to do one dungeon, which happened to be brayflox as I just started leveling DRK. I have full cavalry gear from when I leveled WAR, and I know what I'm doing.


Basically, we zoned in, said hi, the healer had protected all of us but the newbie watching cutscenes. I run forward a few feet, making sure healers ready, pop my buff and grab the first two mobs. This goes smoothly, but I notice I didn't get a single heal and am around half health for next pull. Healer isn't topping me off, just sits there, so I pop a defensive cd and grab the next group of two. I get no heals, and promptly die. Res, take remaining add off the dps. Wait for other dps to run back, and another protect. No protect, and healer pulls next group. Allmywat.jpg. I'm not doing this. I run back to entrance and watch healer die, dps by my side. Here's a screenshot of ensuing conversation.





Oh, did I mention the healer was level 60? Not new by any means, should know by that level that you're supposed to heal the tank.

We kicked, got another healer, and got thru the dungeon.

[Spartan926]

The worst story I had was running with a DPS that I SWEAR was a robot. They would just continually run forward without any concern for where I or the healer was, then use an ability/spell on the first thing that came into range. When I tried to ask them to stop I got no response and things just kept going.

Thank god for the healer we had, they kept up the whole group with no wipes.

[Jeanschyso]

The healer was spamming Cure 2 throughout the Praetorium and kept pulling aggro from me.

I took a break from tanking and went fishing/botany for a month after that.

[Pixelmancer]

I'm trying to level marauder with dungeons for cross class skills for my dark knight. No complaints from any other group. 2 to 3 commendations usually. This particular dungeon I ran several times as a gladiator and this was my third time as marauder. This run the bard is obviously doing a roulette and is way overgeared. He's pulling in every room. When I finally get things under control after a bard pull he still never attacks what I'm attacking. Then the conversation goes something like this.

Me: Don't pull if you're not tanking please.
Bard: You need to use your combo right!
Me: What does that even mean? I don't read minds.
Healer: He's giving you advice. You're new so you should take it.
Me: I might take it if I could figure out what he's trying to tell me.
Bard: Maim is important.

I was trying to explain that he was making it extremely hard to keep enmity at all, much less with something other than my enmity combo, but I got vote kicked in the middle of my sentence. I can't facepalm hard enough without breaking my nose.

[Twilite]

The one that sticks out to this day.. Was my first time tanking quarn normal.

I was just a baby war with zippo experience. On the FIRST pull YES the THREE bats. She does not heal me. So I'm popping every thing I have and yep I died. I'llpoint out she was wearing ddread gear so I'm guessing she was used to high level brick wall tanks where she can perma DPS. I died 2 more times all on easy pulls..

I have to say the bad taste from that still lingers..