tanks not using cooldowns?

[Red_Wolf]

You're implying CC is good in situations where your tank is so bad they might as well not be there. I'm saying that if your tank is that bad, it's a sign you have a bad tank, not that CC is good.

I'm telling you how to help a bad tank out. Nothing more and nothing less.

But if you want my opinion on CC, it is good. Not because some tanks are bad. It's just good. There's a trend of elitism and laziness around it these days that drives me crazy. Yes... I get it. When you're 30 levels higher than a dungeon wearing raid gear you wont' have to use CC. Gratz and all that for grinding out your marks while playing an end-game character. But if you're barely scraping by at low levels without cross-class abilities, no HQ crafted gear, and no gil then it helps a TON. But you actually have to play smart and not tab target while spamming AoE's which is apparently a lot tougher than tanking these days.

Once again I am not saying any of this:
CC is good because some tanks are bad.
CC should be used at all times.
CC should be used over Spamming AoE.
Dungeons in this game are hard for tanks and healers. (this is probably the easiest MMO I've every played tbh)

[Tanathya]

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You will hardly find anyone who's got a bigger crusade than my own against laziness, but let's face it, CC is worthless. It just is, I wish it wasn't, but it is. It really is that simple. You got a bad tank and think something like Sleep, or even Tri-bind is gonna help? Well, it might, but not because CC is useful, but because the tank is useless.

[Whiteroom]

You will hardly find anyone who's got a bigger crusade than my own against laziness, but let's face it, CC is worthless. It just is, I wish it wasn't, but it is. It really is that simple. You got a bad tank and think something like Sleep, or even Tri-bind is gonna help? Well, it might, but not because CC is useful, but because the tank is useless.

Yep, and teaching the tank, even a little will help them more in the long run than sleeping a couple of enemies.


For me to be pushed healing in a dungeon, it has to be more than min ilvl. I have to be min and people have to be doing foolish stuff. Tank pulling big with non aoe classes, when they can hold hate, and dps is super slow. Tbh, I can't think of a time when it (sleep) was really useful to me as far as damage mitigation.

Like I said, Holy helps for dpsing longer, and I'll heavy things like True Heart, but it's not a must.

[Jpec07]

Tbh, I can't think of a time when it (sleep) was really useful to me as far as damage mitigation.

I've only ever encountered it once. The BLM from my FC AoE-sleep'd a pack of mobs to prevent an over-pull with an undergeared, struggling healer, because I'd derped and messed up mob positioning in a dungeon.

In general, CC isn't that helpful. Stunning mobs works as a decent interrupt, but it's almost never a "STUN OR DIE" situation (outside of one of the attacks in A7).