A question about Tanking

[StriderShinryu]

As with pretty much everyone else, I'd say it's best to not take it personally. If anything the fact that you're on here asking about it shows you do actually care and want to improve, which is more than the majority of the player base would be able to say about themselves.

That said, while it's tough to give any real advice without seeing what happened I do think it's still curious that the criticism was as specific as it was. Most whiners would have just said that you suck or something to that effect. Maybe the person was right or maybe they were wrong, and they could have been a lot more helpful even if they were right by sticking around and asking if you wanted some advice instead of just scooting. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to take another look at the tool tips just in case as there might legitimately be something you missed or misunderstood.

[PeekayTom]

Yeah, as a years-long tank, you did fine. Even if someone died, it's fine! Stuff happens.

A tip I've been thinking about because I've been running into it but might as well put here because people will be reading and posting tank tips is: In 2-tank content, if you're not main tanking, make sure you don't turn your stance on until after your initial burst, and then use Shirk as needed. This'll help avoid aggro fights. It's a problem I've been having to deal with where off tanks will fight me for aggro non-stop but also not want to take the initiative to be the guy who pulls and starts the fight.

But yeah, you're doing fine! If there's any rough edges, you'll smooth them out as you play. Don't worry too much!

[Kohashi]

Very hard to tell just based on your words and also very hard to tell without a log to actually look at your rotation.

I had a AST in a lvl 95 dungeon today (still working on my mentor roulette..lol) who gave me, every single card..I was on Tank..

[MayuAmakura]

This happens all the time, there's no reason to open a thread about this just because someone typed 1 sentence. Blacklist, mute, whatever is your pick. We can't know here what you did wrong or not, nor that it cares in a dungeon if it went all good.

[Cyrnix]

I was just curious if I was missing something and looking for pointers. I'm not looking to call anybody out or talk about toxicity to be honest. So I felt like as somebody who doesn't typically tank much, if there are some obvious things that people do that I could easily miss (which a couple have been pointed out and I appreciate) then that's all I was looking for. I'm in an FC but nobody ever talks in it (not even sure anyone is ever even on lol) and quite honestly I don't know why I'm still in it. I pretty much play the game alone, so I don't really have anybody to run anything by in game. Otherwise I would have just asked people in my FC if was active.

[Allooutrick]

Being toxic, refusing to elaborate, and leaving in casual content certainly is a choice. Especially considering that content outside of extremes, savage, etc, are very forgiving.

[RenkoBernkastel]

Being toxic, refusing to elaborate, and leaving in casual content certainly is a choice. Especially considering that content outside of extremes, savage, etc, are very forgiving.

Unsalvageable community if "bro...Tank... you really need to read your abilities" is considered "being toxic".

[Cyrnix]

Were you overlapping mitigation or using Provoke in the middle of rotation while already having the pack aggro'd?

Other than that, I can't possibly think what the problem could have been.

It is possible I fat fingered two cooldowns at the same time during the last boss. I thought about it after the guy said something and that was the only thing that came to mind. But it's not like it mattered. Somebody mentioned using Nascent flash to save the healer. The first time the healer died was on the very first boss. They didn't move out of a nuke and well.. yeah they died. The second time was during the last boss, and it was the same thing. They just got nuked. However, I actually didn't even think about using nascent flash to try and save somebody who is in trouble. So that is a good tip. I don't play WAR as a main I play RPR, but I have really enjoyed playing my WAR a lot more lately.

[DiaDeem]

It is possible I fat fingered two cooldowns at the same time during the last boss.

They were just pricks, then. People are weird.

[Cyrnix]

Unsalvageable community if "bro...Tank... you really need to read your abilities" is considered "being toxic".

It's not what he said that's toxic, it's that he said it and didn't stick around to tell me what I was doing wrong. Which I would have been completely open to because I'm always happy to learn and do better. I have no problem with people criticizing me, but if you're not going to try to help me understand what I did wrong, then I can improve. And after all this is just a dungeon In daily roulettes. It's not like it was difficult content.