do people hate tanking?

[RyuSaarva]

In short: yes. I am mortified of tanking for this community, never having tanked in an mmo. I have always healed in mmos and I get enough grief here for that. I want to tank but I won't go anywhere near it.

healer is by far the hardest class, tanks can make mistakes and live, if dps makes mistakes they usually die if you do extreme primal level content when they are new.

[Nicobo]

IMO there are more people hate tanks than hate tanking. ^^;

[Valkyrie-Amber]

omg so true the hate for tanks can be amazeing... im not innocent I dont like warriors cause I main pld....

[FunkYeahDragons]

Combination of everything listed, plus the fact that it requires a little more attentiveness to go smoothly. The worst that will happen in a typical run if you zone out on a DPS is that your rotation gets messed up and your numbers go down, or you die in fire and the healer has to blow Swiftcast + Raise on you.

On tanks, you lose mobs and people start running around like chickens with their heads cut off, dragging bosses with non-broadcasted AOEs in giant circles. This is annoying for everyone else, but even if the ones running in circles are turning a minor error into a disaster it's the tank who's going to be in the spotlight while they chase them down.

Stunned with disbelief. Very kind of you. May invite you to take you up on that sometime. ^^

If you do, I'm also on Cactuar and have 3 healers to borrow.

[Granyala]

when i am in a dungeon and our tank decides to leave or dc it takes a long time for another one to appear

Has little to do with tanking.
Most people probably don't have the "search for in progress runs" active.

Personally I like tanking. I like healing more, but 15-20min queues suck, so I just hit that DRK-I-Win button almost every time now. :X

In short: yes. I am mortified of tanking for this community, never having tanked in an mmo. I have always healed in mmos and I get enough grief here for that. I want to tank but I won't go anywhere near it.

In my experience you get way more grief as a heal as opposed to tank. Esp in low level dungeons.

[Drkdays]

I wish the game gave greater preference to filling groups in progress.

[Lillia]

I don't really tank because I tend to get nervous and judgmental of my own tanking. I stopped at lvl 50 with my war and just kept it at that level. xD

[Iagainsti]

11 pages later; still love it <3

[Ebonwings]

I love tanking xD fun stuff just keeping aggro, using cooldowns, and mechanics xD The best part is when going ot as PLD I put on sword oath and pretend to work hard

[FabricioRF]

Hell, I love tanking, specially as WAR. What I hate is some people in DF. They treat tanks like shit.
That's why I tank for friends only.