How can you tell a bad tank?

[IntrovertAnt]

A good tank will communicate to his/her healer before they start. Ask your healer a simple question, "big pulls ok with you?". Or something similar.

It warns them what's coming, or communicates to you what pace you should go as well as your healer feels they are about to be taken care of.

Cuz at the end of the day, and this may seem strange in saying but, the tank has to take the responsibility of making things easier for the healer.

You can have a bad healer and still look like a good tank, but it's very difficult to look like a good healer when you have a bad tank.

[gumas]

Is there an easy way to tell if a defensive CD has been used?

after defensive CD is used no. but if they use defensive CD there should a skill icon appear on their party ui



like that

[Kabooa]

No sprint.

[AnimaAnimus]

How can you tell a bad tank?

/tell Bad Tank Hello! How are you today?

;D sorry I couldn't resist

[Atlantasia]

The first thing I say in any 4 man dungeon is this:
"Please pull big" Or "Pull big please. <3"

If they won't do it without saying something or complain about that, then I know they're crap. Right off the bat. Sometimes I'll leave and switch characters for a bit due to the penalty, because it's the difference between 30 minute runs and 15 minute runs sometimes...

Above gear, unless their gear is just trash (which I use HP to gauge typically just off hand), the usage of cds makes or breaks a tank. A sign of a good tank is one you do not have to baby constantly with heals.

But that's just my opinion and experience. :3

[Impurrrsive]

For me, i have high tolerance for tanks, no matter how they pull ( big pull is a plus for me), new or veteran, how clunky they use the defensive cd, my worst taboo for tanks is when they didn't manage their agro.
Its usually happen when new adds appear, some are either too lazy or they didn't even know what is happening around them
Then dps start to run around like headless chicken, the misery... Chaos

[Eskuire]

I call them out.

"Use some cooldowns please so we can clear faster." if they pull wall to wall and expect me to blast through 6 lustrates and aldo shields, I'll call them out. Not in a dickbagish way through, I'll be nice the first time. The next time you're just being annoying and lazy.

I try to play every class so I know how each class fundamentally works regarding their personal healing / abilities.

Small example : I won't heal a dragoon unless they are under 75% cause I know they have Bloodbath and second wind, so usually their full rotation would give back around 10-14k hp [I also know their icons / rotations so I can deduce if they need a little help or not]

Also if you use superbolide when you're at half health you deserve what you get. God that skill is a burning bag of ass

[Zfz]

but in boss fight i agree, if i see DRK or PLD mp is not empty 80% of the time during boss fight, thas bad. not the worst, but bad yeah.

Shouldn't the PLD always be accumulating MP towards full most of the time anyways?

• Requiescat's 50% buff and instant cast effect is only activated if the PLD as 8000+ MP.
• Requiescat has a 60s cooldown which lines up nicely with the PLD rotation to recover to full MP.
• Confiteor (the 800 potency finisher) requires Requiescat.

Requiescat lasts 12s, so basically the PLD will only be spending MP 20% of the time (and basically dump all the MP within that 12 seconds) while trying to accumulate MP 80% of the time.

[van_arn]

Threat is so braindead now if a tank repeatedly loses threat on packs they need to be kicked.

[Abomination713]

Shouldn't the PLD always be accumulating MP towards full most of the time anyways?

• Requiescat's 50% buff and instant cast effect is only activated if the PLD as 8000+ MP.
• Requiescat has a 60s cooldown which lines up nicely with the PLD rotation to recover to full MP.
• Confiteor (the 800 potency finisher) requires Requiescat.

Requiescat lasts 12s, so basically the PLD will only be spending MP 20% of the time (and basically dump all the MP within that 12 seconds) while trying to accumulate MP 80% of the time.

With the new Requiescat instant cast, you can get all 5 casts out now in that time (2k MP each) so a PLD should have full MP to maximize damage.