Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
Tankxiety is only caused by inexperienced tanks not realizing they're the least important role in normal. Once the tank comes to realize this, everything falls into place.
Mine moreso is caused by experiences I've had as DPS watching others rail on tanks for minute mistakes. Going into the role like that, that's what I've seen and what I've come to expect - so there's a level of fear of failure. You may be the least important role but you're also almost always the reason for a wipe, even when you aren't, in my experience.

Quote Originally Posted by LyraMaru View Post
There's no need for tankxiety. Even if someone has 0 parctice. Just know your skills (you should read your tooltips from new skills you get). Don't use your deff CDs all at once and remeber that arm's lenght and reprisal are deff-cds too. Keep your gear up to date. The tanks have a single and an aoe rotation. All other stuff is dmg optimization. Don't be shy pulling wall to wall. If it fails - that's not the end of the world. Maybe check if the healer and DPS are aoeing if you're running out of CDs. You can communicate. If you warn your healer that you're just learning, they will maybe babysit you more.

Not using AOE skills is bad in my opinion. Even more if they are on someones hotbar and are just not used. But that's the thing in reading tooltips. Sure, they can be confusing. But if the person really cares, they would ask or check the internet. There are so many guides out there. Uuuhm ok, we're talking about lvl 80 characters. Uuuhhmmm maybe they really just don't care.

I'm just biting the bullet and go through the dungeon. If it was really bad, I'll blacklist the person. If I'm in a good mood, I'll try to teach or give some tips. But mostly I'm trying to give my best to speed the things up.
I have a macro to let everyone know I'm still learning how to tank. It's been vital in letting others know what to expect from me - not a lot of big pulls and maybe a bit more mistakes, but letting them know has made things go a lot more smoothly. I've still had the one out of line comment - along the lines of "If you're not comfortable tanking at all then don't tank at all." (Which completely negates the point of using small low level dungeons to learn?)

But tanxiety is still going to be there ahah, because of my experience as DPS in roulettes watching tanks get railroaded for tiny mistakes that don't even set the group back. (happens to healers too, which is why I've also got healer anxiety).

Also I mentioned lvl 50 bc person I quoted mentioned lvl 50, otherwise I wouldn't have even piped up LMAO.