Post your tanking derps and herps here!

[Sqwall]

Did a 25 guild hest thinking I had all my skills from 31 PLD.
No sword oath
No shield swipe

Spent most the fight standing still spaming sword oath thinking it was lag waiting to catch up

...and spamming shield swipe wondering why it wasn't procing cause I know for fact I had a few blocks...

Healer spammed Cure...I lost agro...party lost healer....healer rage quit....*sigh*

[Causality]

forgetting to keep my gear repaired and updated to my level. I was a 28GLD going through Thousand Maw for the first time wondering why im struggling. Found out I was still using Level 15 gear and some were at 1% durability. oops!

Changed to proper level gear and suddenly the game was too easy..lol

I did Something similar in Halatali Hard on my PLD, but My pieces kept breaking. Luckily I still had my Phlaegeon set from Sycrus tower in my bag and some Lowbie Jewelery from leveling WAR. So I went in wearing Full Noct (i110) and Burtang (i110) and left wearing Phlaegeon (i100) with i39 HQ Heliodor Accessories and a Notched Viking Sword (Weak i35) with Scorpion Shield (i44 Dzemael Darkhold).

[Pavise]

So my most recent one.. Sprint prior to boss pulls are always fun.. I had to change the bind lol..

[Eislynn]

ONe of my derps - flashing with no healer around. Whoops.

[Herokun]

I had no trouble tanking Sastasha, but as I went along the progressive dungeons, everything became trickier.

My big screw up was Ifrit for the first time. I treated it like any other dungeon run, bad idea. Next thing I know, I'm running around a bit trying to figure out where to hold him at. Struggled to keep hate when the healer used the limit break. We technically won on the third try but healer was dead and I die 1 second before the final blow was landed. So yeah, got a lot to work on.

[Arikaen]

Had one the other night the healer marked the enemies but several times thought I had targeted the marked enemy but nope wrong one.

[Taihaku]

Doing that guildhest that teaches you how to deal with roaming trash packs. I figured it would be like a regular dungeon so i sneaked past about 5 groups to get to the boss with my group. Soon as I pulled, the entire room with all trash aggroed me and i couldn't even say "oh shit" before I was destroyed.

[Arkine]

Hitting the chat box with the mouse and wondering my abilities are firing up only to find 123123123444123123145543 in the chat log.

First time fighting Gaius, I mistook his blue fire effect for sacred soil.

My biggest derp is not leaving parties whenever people gave me shit, but that has been rectified. Thank god for the duty finder.

[Vydos]

First time fighting Gaius, I mistook his blue fire effect for sacred soil.

I mistook sacred soil for his blue fire (inverted lol). Although it's more like, me thinking that every blue circle was his lol. Luckily he warps everywhere anyway. So no big issues lol.

My own derp moment was during wanderer's palace with some linkshell members. Did the entire dungeon without any issues until we reached tonberry. Where everyone's grudge kept killing me.

Party going

- "Yeah we need a tank with more hp. Your 3.8K hp isn't going to do it Ron"
- "Hold on, let me see if I can swap some gear"
*opens his equipment screen*
-"...Whoops! I forgot to use all of my tanking accesories...That was my solo DD gear hahaha...."
Ron's new HP: 4.4K

Fun fact...I tanked all my level +40 instances with that setup *cough*. Luckily I'm a good tank.

ps: we also figured out that my HP wasn't really the issue for that fight.

[Duragon]

The Rancor! It Feeds me yet Consumes Me!