So I Recently Picked up WAR

[Soma_Farkreath]

As the title says I recently started playing WAR. This is also my first time playing a tank (i pretty much always play healer in any MMO) and i finally understand everyone's complaints about tanking in ffxiv. Like what am i supposed to do if the DPS continually run ahead to pull groups/bosses faster than i can get my character to move?

[Alleluia]

As the title says I recently started playing WAR. This is also my first time playing a tank (i pretty much always play healer in any MMO) and i finally understand everyone's complaints about tanking in ffxiv. Like what am i supposed to do if the DPS continually run ahead to pull groups/bosses faster than i can get my character to move?

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

You can also be nice about it and try to do your job anyway even as they work against you. Depends on how obnoxious they’re being.

[Nizzi]

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

You can also be nice about it and try to do your job anyway even as they work against you. Depends on how obnoxious they’re being.

i too enjoy not doing the role i signed up to do (heal) and instead exercise my psychotic desire for any amount of control over someone by not healing them when they do something i dislike

instead of talking to them i will simply not do the thing i signed up to do (heal) because being social is scary and i much prefer trying to make someone "learn" by punishing them and griefing because i enjoy the misery of others

it's funny though, i don't see "mentor" or "teacher" or "not healer" in the Healer name? Just like I don't see "puller" or "leader" or "head of the pack" in the Tank role? But Healers have "heal" in the name, and Tanks have "tank" so that's kind of awkward

[Padudu]

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

You can also be nice about it and try to do your job anyway even as they work against you. Depends on how obnoxious they’re being.

Ah, the small tank pp mindset. I hope you know that ordering tank diapers comes with a pacifier for all the crying you must do when a DPS hits sprint before you do

[Seger]

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

You can also be nice about it and try to do your job anyway even as they work against you. Depends on how obnoxious they’re being.

That's not the way to go.

You can actually get reported for doing that.

You don't fight bad behavior with more bad behavior.

[Euphares]

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

You can also be nice about it and try to do your job anyway even as they work against you. Depends on how obnoxious they’re being.

So glad I play tank and healer in dungeons so I will never get you in mine. What a selfish mindset.

[Meme-san]

Same thing you should do as a healer. Let them die. lol

/thread. they didn't know you were going to walk away to get a drink of water and neither did you

[hagare]

As the title says I recently started playing WAR. This is also my first time playing a tank (i pretty much always play healer in any MMO) and i finally understand everyone's complaints about tanking in ffxiv. Like what am i supposed to do if the DPS continually run ahead to pull groups/bosses faster than i can get my character to move?

you keep going and meet in the middle then AoE.
If they're smart, they'll bring them to you.

[Alleluia]

you keep going and meet in the middle then AoE.
If they're smart, they'll bring them to you.

Not for bosses though. There is no legit scenario in a pug where anyone should be just running ahead of the tank and pulling the bosses before they’re in the arena. Maybe in a static, but even in those you at least wait till everyone’s physically present before engaging. It’s just practical.

More subjectively, I think the tank should always pull bosses. They’re the ones who need to be ready for a fight to start bc they have to be ready to generate aggro. So they should be the ones who control when the fight starts. If the tank isn’t ready, it’s bad for the whole group.

[hagare]

Not for bosses though. There is no legit scenario in a pug where anyone should be just running ahead of the tank and pulling the bosses before they’re in the arena. Maybe in a static, but even in those you at least wait till everyone’s physically present before engaging.

In an 8 man, the lock doesn't open until everyone's in.
In a dungeon, how slow are you that you can't catch up to a boss room?
and you have tomahawk at 15.