Quote Originally Posted by Makeda View Post
I feel that while FFXIV offers one of the best maintank experiences in any MMO the offtank experience is horrible. I view the offtank role as wearing a dunce hat: you do less DPS and have no control over the fight... you’re basically dead weight. Being offtank is riding the short bus... except you’re not in the bus, you’re strapped to the front bumper Mad Max style with a gag on...

FFXIV offtank design is basically “you only exist in case the MT refuses a rez after failing a mechanic”. Sure sometimes you share a cleave but that’s like giving someone a last meal in their way to the gallows...

So...

I get “triggered” when my co-tank wants to maintank but won’t say so, and instead just pulls right after I put up the countdown.
When that happens I go into berserk mode. I will time provoke to go off 1 second after Leeroy tries to provoke. I will line up tank busters to hit Leeroy in the blast / cleave. I have even kept it up when I highly suspected the healers were not able to keep us up.

If there is no tank drama... when I join a DF my fingers are hovering over my keybinds for tank stance to try and be the first one to have it on when I zone in, so I can avoid being the dunce, er, OT.

If we both had it on when I zone in and nothing is said, I will have the countdown timer open and hit it the second the gate goes down.

All that said if the other tank speaks up, or I zone in with stance off or if I join someone else’s party I will back off and wear the dunce hat...

Lastly... I’d confess that I have been hesitant to accept roles as a tank in statics, even for my own FC, for fear that I might be asked to offrank.

I obsessively watch the gear of anyone leveling a tank in my FC hoping they give up so I won’t have to fight it out over the maintank spot... because my nature is to be gracious and... well... I will switch roles or dust off my WoW tanks (where tanking is not that great, but at least MT and OT are equals), before I accept offtanking ...
Thats actually really funny. I play GNB as my main because I love the aesthitic of the job. so I never quite mind to be an OT in many positions. If you have a static group and need an OT hit me up. I do not mind doing mindless things most of the time as long as I can MT a couple of fights just to know the fight inside and out. hit me up on discord if you so want. Berusein#2841