DF Tank Experience

[AriKitae]

Your attitude supports the notion you think this is a ludicrous stance because in no way would the healer or dps be at fault according to you, and if they were, it was likely the tank's fault in the first place.

Actually, no. I did say in your post that some of your grievances were valid. My stance, however, is one of personal responsibility. I have experienced every single complaint that you have listed in this post and have found ways to adapt to each one of them. It might not be the most fun time to have to adapt, but that is what being a team player is. Being a team player as a tank is flashing more when your healer overheals or cycling targets when the DPS are focusing two different things or nuking the whole pack. Being a team player isn't pointing fingers or expecting DPS to muzzle themselves so that the tank doesn't have to focus on enmity so much.


I want you to understand that you can still tank correctly, even with a not so perfect party. I am sorry if my posts are a little bit too "tough love", but you can get to that place where you don't just get commendations for smooth runs but also for the ones where you save the the day with your skill and expertise.

You can and hopefully will get to a place where you will get a "feel" for enmity, and you won't even have to look at your enmity gauges often to know when you need to flash or switch targets. But many of these tanking skills come from your own hard work and dedication, including watching those gauges like a keen-multitasking-hawk when you are starting out, and working with unruly pugs is part of that. You won't get there right away, but you can do it as long as you are willing to put in the work and take responsibility for your role in the party's success.

[Nezkeys79]

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Your post again was just littered with condescending remarks along the lines of "I know it all", "the tank should never lose aggro ever", "it's your fault always and you need to get better at your job", "tough love", then proceeded to give me advice for things I already know and do.

You then had the audacity to suggest I am not a team player when the very motive for this post is to say I'm fed up with other players who decide not be team players and just bandwagon on the "tank hate" mentality. My whole ethos is for the party to work together as a team, and a dps who pulls before me, and healers who heal them and regen/holy me before I have cemented aggro, or run away from me instead of towards me are not the hallmarks of team players. Especially when all they have to offer in chat is "you can't even hold aggro". Not once have you accepted that there may be times when a dps and healer are at fault and the tank is doing everything right. I'm not saying this happens a lot but it happens enough for me to be pissed off about it.

Since you can't read my posts properly or even understand what this post is about without stroking your epeen I'll just ignore whatever you say from now on because you aren't really helping