Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[JeromeMercedes]

Played with a AS12 geared tanked that couldn't hold hate from my measly geared mnk in gubal library.This i why I just tank roulette's myself but damn I wanna try other stuff but people suck.

[Alien_Gamer]

A tank pops up with min gear requirements everyone else on High level gear and relic. Long run specially at Scorpion phase. Luckily we had an awesome healer

This might have been me, thats about the time when I came back to the game from a 6 month break. I remember the DPS being good and the healer was fantastic; he managed to keep me up and DPS a lot.

Thank you for the smooth run.

[DrCynapsis]

Co-tanks popping every CD on their hotbar on initial pull... O.o

[DrCynapsis]

Another, another... OTs that refuse to drop tank stance. Why? "Cos I'm a tank, stupid." O.o

[Ekimmak]

Another, another... OTs that refuse to drop tank stance. Why? "Cos I'm a tank, stupid." O.o

I'd stay in Tank Stance for Lakshmi Extreme offtanking because I need to remain as #2 threat and I don't trust myself to remember it. I mean, I'll eventually go to DPS stance, but for now, I'd rather not risk her cleaving a DPS, because that means I'm not doing my job.

[Krakatoah]

I'd stay in Tank Stance for Lakshmi Extreme offtanking because I need to remain as #2 threat and I don't trust myself to remember it. I mean, I'll eventually go to DPS stance, but for now, I'd rather not risk her cleaving a DPS, because that means I'm not doing my job.

That's also a case for your MT to actually use Shirk so you can just drop Grit and go to town on the angry snekmom, ...Provided said MT has Shirk active.

[DrCynapsis]

I'd stay in Tank Stance for Lakshmi Extreme offtanking because I need to remain as #2 threat and I don't trust myself to remember it. I mean, I'll eventually go to DPS stance, but for now, I'd rather not risk her cleaving a DPS, because that means I'm not doing my job.

I use Shirk, more tanks need to try Shirk. You can stay in DPS stance as an OT the whole fight by 'voking Laks then immediately Shirk the MT. You'll match their aggro then boost it by 25 percent. Repeat every 2mins. Meaning the rest of your party will never catch the tanks in Aggro. I was doing Suzi runs last night where after second buster me and OT just swapped using shirk and stayed in OT stance till kill, unless things go awry of course. Have you got any tank friends you can practice it with. I started using Shirk with one other tank buddy in Ifrit hard just to get a feel for it, before taking it endgame.

[Ekimmak]

I use Shirk, more tanks need to try Shirk. You can stay in DPS stance as an OT the whole fight by 'voking Laks then immediately Shirk the MT. You'll match their aggro then boost it by 25 percent. Repeat every 2mins. Meaning the rest of your party will never catch the tanks in Aggro. I was doing Suzi runs last night where after second buster me and OT just swapped using shirk and stayed in OT stance till kill, unless things go awry of course. Have you got any tank friends you can practice it with. I started using Shirk with one other tank buddy in Ifrit hard just to get a feel for it, before taking it endgame.

I do have a tank friend, and we both really like Shirk.

I think my sole issue there is that I get into the mindset of "If I save it till later, I'll get even more threat!" and end up not using it. Probably need to do less forum'ing and more gaming.

[KaloBalo]

And now for a story about true pain… true true pain.

Silly little me went: “Hey, I haven’t done lvling roulette in a while, I’ll do it as war.” So I get in and end up in Great Gubal Library. I see nin is newish, bard is newbie, but healer is dressed in 60 gear and has plenty 60 classes so I don’t worry too much.
I’m slightly nervous before the first boss. The healer lets me drop to almost death multiple times during pulls and pops cool downs at odd times. “Hey! My mp is full, let me pop shroud of something something!! Genius!”

First boss, 2 aoe attacks go off and me and nin are the only ones left standing. 5 more aoe attacks and the nin goes down. I go “Fuck this, I’m not willing to solo this shit.” So I kill myself.
Fresh start aaaaaaaand same shit… bard manages to say this “Healer, could you maybe esuna the slow debuff?” Now don’t get me wrong, yes the healer is shit, but this fucker…. That debuff is so dodge able if you just don’t get hit by the ice aoe so I can’t even get behind their comment about this shit healer!
In the end I manage to solo the first boss, a lot more work as war than as pally, but doable.

Second boss works well enough, the light balls are annoying, but get through it quick enough.

Then… the last boss…. You know the last boss right? He’s pain incarnate with his “mark over head, drop giant ball of pain on this person. 2 or 3 people on this thing or else in spawns giant extra mob of doom”…. Yeah that lovable guy, with this group…
At this point I’m begging for someone to vote kick this healer, but I have a feeling that the nin is with the healer.
So…. First round. About 1 min in and healer is dead. Why? Because they stood in ball of pain… the ball of pain they themselves dropped… and this ball of pain does not kill you in one hit, it takes a good 4 or 5 hits. So this fucker stood there for 4 hits, and even tried to heal themselves while still standing in the ball of pain!!
I let out a little sigh, but soldier on, until my brain dead dps manages to not help me with a single “stand on glowing shit” and 4 mobs spawn… I kindly get aggro of all of them and promptly die.

Round 2 (lemme just say there was a lot of rounds). The healer manages to do the same shit, dps being stupid, wipe, reset. Bard leaves, and we get a new bard. As we’ve been wiping I’ve noticed the nin is learning. He’s starting to help me with the “stand in this shit”, he’s even killing mobs and placing balls right. So I have half a hope that if this new bard is just barely capable we might manage to get through this.
Fight starts, healer dies again… I heave another sigh and get ready for the pain… que the most intense fight in the history of warrior legend, using whatever skill I have for damage reduction and self healing. The dps are finally on point. Doing all the “stand in this shit” and placing balls correctly. We manage to kill the boss with all of us standing. I get a bow from nin, and a “war op” from bard (healer is silent as the grave as they’ve been all run).
I leave with 3 comms, and as I look out over Limsa Lominsa I stand there with a feeling of: “I don’t think the comms are worth it no more.”

For the final kick, guess who was top on dps… no no, it’s cool. I’ll solo all the bosses, heal myself and do the most dps, it’s cool, I can do that.

[Galgarion]

It's really weird how the normal GGL has turned into an extreme coordination test for pugs. I feel genuine fear when it pops up in roulette and I'm with an at-level group. The Everliving Bibliotaph just doesn't fuck around.