Adventurer in need

[Aron73]

So here's the thing. If you play dps and die, the rest of the group survives and lives on. If you play tank and die, your group dies unless the healer can rez you fast enough. If you play healer and die, the group dies unless your tank is just really lucky, or you have a caster with a resurrect.

The fear of messing up is what prevents me from playing tank/healer. Although now that I have unlocked the Grand Company dungeon thing with the recruits, I may use them as my training dummies for healing.

I have 3 chars for RP purpos and one of them is a tank. Now before I contineue with this I will say I have next to no experince as a tank in wow I was mainly DPS Hunter to be exact. But the easest thing in this game is to be a tank in my opinion I dont know how manny times I died with my Archer but only ones have I died as a tank in a dungeon and that was yesterday when I tanked as a warrior for the first time. but here is the truth up till now I used one skill as a tank in a dungeon and thats my aoe attack and allways kept aggro now as lvl 40+ i use 3 skills 2 of witch are cd's that I use about ones every min then I spam my aoe thats how easy it is to be a tank. now I do not know if that will shange when I become a DK but I will learn and with this great comunity that do NOTR give me shit for doing a misstake I beleve this is the best comunity to learn from just keep an eye on the chat while spaming your only skill you need and you will be fine. ps yes it is a lot harder t be DPS class especialy mage I got one of those to

[kaynide]

I have 3 chars for RP purpos and one of them is a tank. Now before I contineue with this I will say I have next to no experince as a tank in wow I was mainly DPS Hunter to be exact. But the easest thing in this game is to be a tank in my opinion I dont know how manny times I died with my Archer but only ones have I died as a tank in a dungeon and that was yesterday when I tanked as a warrior for the first time. but here is the truth up till now I used one skill as a tank in a dungeon and thats my aoe attack and allways kept aggro now as lvl 40+ i use 3 skills 2 of witch are cd's that I use about ones every min then I spam my aoe thats how easy it is to be a tank. now I do not know if that will shange when I become a DK but I will learn and with this great comunity that do NOTR give me shit for doing a misstake I beleve this is the best comunity to learn from just keep an eye on the chat while spaming your only skill you need and you will be fine. ps yes it is a lot harder t be DPS class especialy mage I got one of those to

You’re not wrong in essence. Mechanically tanks are really easy to play, but the pressure/fear of screwing up or “leading” the group is the big turnoff. If the tank dies several times to a new mechanic, it could cause a huge problem (especially if it’s a raid like copied factory). Especially if one doesn’t know the mechanics and doesn’t study ahead about what to do.

I would also agree that (for me) BLM is the hardest job to play. Again not because of any major difficulty in the mechanics..but because you have to remember 2 or 3 different rotations based on your level and have a good sense of timing since you have to plant in place to cast a potentially lengthy spell.