Post Your Tanking Horror Stories!

[MagiusNecros]

Found out the hard way that Yolo plunging toward a singularity reactor in Ozma fight is a bad idea.

I....uh....death plunged off the platform.

[Linx0r]

More of a success story than horror..... But was OT in A8 and MT dc'd just as brawler and other add came out. Long story short I tanked BOTH adds and the next set of BOTH adds before he came back then said 'thanks for not kicking me.....I'll MT from here' . One of the healers said 'no damn way..... You OT and for the rest of the fight'. We did it, I got 7 comms an. FYI this was at ilvl 225

[Reptiletc]

The Aurum Vale, I was DRK, had a MNK, BRD, and a freaking CNJ. Yes, a CNJ. The guy didn't know how to get his job crystal and thought he would just roll with it. (Guy was 54)

The BRD kept running off and pulling mobs on his own and then telling me that's what he was taught to do.

CNJ kept prioritizing healing the BRD and then himself. I was last on the list I guess.

Everyone was synced except for the BRD, who was horribly under-geared (lvl 20 jewelry and some lvl 30 items)

Wiped repeatedly, but made it to the last boss somehow before someone voted dismiss.

The MNK did great.

[bounddreamer]

Loaded into Shiva for trial roulette. I examine the other tank as the new player views the cutscene.

Me: a 233 DRK with melded Horde Guillotine, current melded progression gear.

Him: a PLD in ~145 leveling gear.

I'm already in grit when we load in. I turn darkside on as the healers buff the party. He turns on Shield Oath.

As I'm headed for the boss and hitting it with my opener, he fires off a provoke which is utterly wasted as I move into the dark arts+power slash combo.

He proceeds to provoke. Every. Single. Time. It comes off cool down. Which is kind of hilarious because the provoke animation is more obvious now, and again pointless because I have Shiva back in two global cooldowns.

Ice soldiers spawn. He doesn't pick them up so I shrugged and grab them, too.

He keeps doing Rage of Halone and provoke when he's got it. We finish killing Shiva and I finally say in chat, "spamming provoke doesn't make you a main tank, [name]." Bow, goodbye, exit.

[deastr]

He keeps doing Rage of Halone and provoke when he's got it. We finish killing Shiva and I finally say in chat, "spamming provoke doesn't make you a main tank, [name]." Bow, goodbye, exit.

Did you tell him anything other than the snark at the end or did you just expect him to realize that he wasn't tanking since you have Grit on?

[Fernosaur]

I queued for Lvl 50 roulette as Scholar, got Qarn hard.

The tank was a Roe PLD, he waited until I put all buffs on him, then literally walked to the dungeon's entrance and left.

I meant wt actual f

[Pixelmancer]

For the record I'm not a new player. I just haven't played since before the expansion. I was a white mage so I decided to start over as a tank this time. I just tanked Haukke Manor. It was a PUG so I played cautious at first to decide how much I can pull. They failed the stupid check. DPS wasn't letting me gather up and get hate on mobs before going balls out mid-pull. They kept aggroing adds. Etcetera. So I was pulling 1 group at a time. One DPS complained about small pulls and then seconds later "accidentally" aggroed another group and gave me a very fake apology. I made some rude comment and this apparently flipped the DPS's psycho switch and she kept yelling at me in party chat the rest of the run. Like literally nonstop for probably 70% of the dungeon.

Meanwhile I was silent nearly the entire time. The only thing I said after the initial confrontation was after the DPS complained that my utter silence apparently counted as arguing with her so I pointed out that I had said a grand total of like 3 sentences the whole run and none of them were recent. She's the only one arguing. Then she yelled at me for calling this an argument despite it being her words in the first place. The DPS proceeds to intermittently refuse to do damage while bragging about how many level 60 classes she has for the last third or so of the dungeon. I tried to kick her, but she was friends with at least one other person in the group so it didn't work. I got one class to 34 and another to 32 without trouble and I was just mentioning to someone that I had gone an oddly long time without running into one of these people. I shouldn't have jinxed it.

[The_NPC]

^ thou I have personally never seen a person at that level of Ego-raging (I rate them by u'r story at 7/10, highest I've seen is a 5/10 mine eather leave after 2-3 insults, are "made" to leave or shut up after their put in their place) I am glad I haven't met one like that thou I have herd of this 1 player who refuses to run with anyone wearing anything under ilv220 from a friend who met them once (which btw sounds stupid if he does this in Aetherchemical as it syncs u anyway, even worse if they try this in a leveling dungeon or any place lv50 & under)

[Jim_Berry]

- Tank announce that it's his first time in A6 Normal.

- I attempt to inform him of tank swaps since I was there as tank as well.

- Healer pulls, after telling new tank that he "...shouldnt join if u dont know your role". Really!?

- BLM added something like "If dps and heal is good, we won't worry about swap."

- I die from 7 stacks, OT struggles to grab enemy.

- Group tells the OT that he suck and should quit.

Not exactly a horror tank story for me, but the new tank was mistreated.

[Chrysy]

today, in weeping city i queue'd in on my war (only 60 tank) to try and get some gear for him, i waited 40 mins to get in, after 5-8 instant withdrawals, and finally i get in, 3 warriors, 1 in defiance (26k hp), one in no stance, and me, in deliverence(35k hp), so i switched into defiance, main tanked it, and the dps was abyssmal, wiped 3 times on forgalli due to too many dps tunnel visioning at under 10%, then wiping on ozma 4 times because 2 dps dc'd midfight and generally ignoring mechanics. i was weeping by the end at seeing so many people ignoring mechanics q-q