tanks not using cooldowns?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

This is a great example of how the more "experience" you have the worse you can be sometimes. Tanking in other games involves all kinds of different mechanics, stat weights, reliance on healers vs reliance on cooldowns, etc.

and no, this is not common sense stuff. Common sense would've made decisions based on how this game worked with all the factors, and if you had common sense and did that you'd come to pretty much the opposite of everything in that post. Sure, in 2004 on whatever game you're intent on bragging about it may have mattered, but here it didn't.

Your post reminds me of all the STR bards I've seen levelling up.

Uh.. well I am pretty sure every tank i've played in games have damage reduction temps similar to FFXIV. I mean its really really common; EVEN in Non-Linear Action MMOs warrior type classes have damage reduction moves. If you don't know that you haven't played much else.

Also; more health is a sponge; but less health makes you have to think about how much damage your tanking. That is common sense.

Don't see how you got bards mixed up with this; because that just sounds like stupidity to me.

While tank with a lot of hp can survive longer, healer is healing for same amount of hp. if you start getting rekt for 2,5k auto-attacks each 3 sec, no matter how many HP you have, healer has to start healing immiedetely to make the healing even to dmg you recieve.

If you use cooldown, you will recieve only 1,8k auto-attacks each 3 sec, and healer don't have to pee their pants you won't get out of this alive, becuase he heals for more than you get on your chest.

Of course; except when you have half the HP you had before you could actually see the spike and feel it a lot more. It made you have to worry about it more because if you didn't your dead. Now that you have a sponge you can see it; but you can also just not use it and get healed through it putting more stress on your healer.

After all; there wouldn't be a thread complaining about it otherwise.