How to Help Tanks in Dungeons 101.

[Orbital-Dragon]

Earlier I ran the second dungeon with my friend. He is a tank, and I am Arcanist. I run my emerald carb unless he loses aggro somehow and our healer is getting focused. I will swap into topaz carb to pull off the healer. Anyways we had a TMG/BLK in our party, who was casting AoE abilities non stop through the whole dungeon and made it pretty much impossible for my friend to keep aggro on everything. Yet, throughout the entire dungeon the TMG did nothing but yell at my friend for not tanking correctly.

On top of this, the same guy Need/Greed every single item in the dungeon including melee tank gear. Such trash.

[Bixby]

Earlier I ran the second dungeon with my friend.

I'd advise against busting out your Topaz. That's not going to help your friend develop his tanking reflexes. Knowing how to regain enmity is a very important skill, right up there with knowing how to gain it to begin with.

And it sucks, but folks like that THM happen. Every tank has those stories. Sometimes, tanking is as much about managing your party members as it is about managing your targets.

[Tazz]

I'd advise against busting out your Topaz. That's not going to help your friend develop his tanking reflexes. Knowing how to regain enmity is a very important skill, right up there with knowing how to gain it to begin with.

Ok I get this explaination. This is alot better than going into a dungeon and getting told, "DONT USE THAT PET, PULL OUT THE BLUE ONE!!!!". The first thing that comes to my mind is Im paying the subscription to this game not you. But on the other hand if the tank is STILL learning how to tank and steps into one of the 30+ dungeons and still doesnt know what he/she is doing then im pulling out my pikichu.

[Sheer]

Ok I get this explaination. This is alot better than going into a dungeon and getting told, "DONT USE THAT PET, PULL OUT THE BLUE ONE!!!!". The first thing that comes to my mind is Im paying the subscription to this game not you. But on the other hand if the tank is STILL learning how to tank and steps into one of the 30+ dungeons and still doesnt know what he/she is doing then im pulling out my pikichu.

Hmm, I'm not sure exactly how helpful a Topaz Carbuncle would be in a level 30+ dungeon - from what I've heard, they go down in a hit or two at higher levels. At the end of the day, dungeons can be done on a case-by-case basis, and if your party is okay with you using a Topaz Carbuncle, I can't see a problem with it.