You wanna Tank in 8 and 24 Man content but stay OT?

[kupokage]

That\\'s fine and all, but when the MT falls, you need to switch oaths and pick up the hate. Heck, even the occasional adds need picking up and should be done so in your thank stance.

Too often im seeing you OTs stay OT when the MT falls. Chances are you aren\\'t second on the aggro list and now your WHM or BLM is being tank bustered.

Posting this in General Discussions because the tanks who aren\\'t already switching oaths as needed seldom visit the Tank Roles forum I take it.

[Lilseph]

Some people queue as tank because of the short queues. However, the situation you're describing I see it all the time in 24-man dungeons specifically. I understand you might be new and fairy insecure, but if you queued as a tank, try and do your designated role if needed. Yeah, you might die and f**k up potentially, but at least you tried and learned a little.

[Derio]

The tanks that don't do this don't even visit the forums. I doubt saying anything here will help.

But some people just want the fast queue.

What I dont understand is 24 man, as I have found myself waiting a while for those queues to pop as a tank.

But When the main tank falls in a 24 man I just grab aggro and tell the alliance

[Darkrotor]

I just got back into the game in the last few weeks and am working my SCH up to 70 but want to try getting my PLD up there too so I will jump into DF when I dont need the extra exp for my healer. I simply tell them I havent tanked in 2 years and will OT until needed, normally somebody will mention something if they need me to specifically pick something up and if not I will try to stay near the top of aggro just in case I need to jump in. Other than that I will try to use cover and such to help out and do my best not to take damage so I am not taxing the healers. Works out fine most of the time.

[Avatre]

But When the main tank falls in a 24 man I just grab aggro and tell the alliance

...I now have a new Macro to use for alliance chat. >.>

[Vaer]

Then you have the ones where no one wants to pull so you sit there for like 1 min, finally say screw it and pull it, then they ot in tank stance spamming 1 2 3 hate combo getting the alliance cleaved forcing you to spam 1 2 3, too.

[bswpayton]

Then you have the ones where no one wants to pull so you sit there for like 1 min, finally say screw it and pull it, then they ot in tank stance spamming 1 2 3 hate combo getting the alliance cleaved forcing you to spam 1 2 3, too.

What I dont like is when I go in with all intentions of mt and then someone just decides now they wana mt , Dont understand why people do this. I do a ready check, countdown, put the boss in the right spot away from party and all of a sudden a warrior decides they wana mt its happened to me twice.

[Canadane]

I don't really mind tanks that prefer to be OT, but there are times you gotta step it up. If you've queued as tank, prepare to tank.
As a tank main, it's baffling that someone wouldn't want to tank.

[AngeloFlick]

Not only tanks, but healers coming into 24 mans and refusing to heal. They're just DPS'ing away while the actual DPS die slow deaths from accumulated unavoidable damage. Special shout out to the two healers in Dun Scaith last week who refused to load Esuna so that half our group was continuously on the floor from Doom.

[HoodRat]

And don't get me started on those dps. Even when I'm tanking bosses, I'm still top 5 damage out of all 24 players. :^)