Lacking dungeon experience

[Babylyn90]

I get yelled at every time for being a "shitty tank" and they really do expect to take zero damage and just heal, hell, I even had one complaining because he had to keep healing. What is wrong with these people. -__-"

I'm sorry, but that's hilarious. I haven't run into any "grr n00b" so far, but I just got 30 GLD so we'll see what happens. Sorry you had to go through that OP. If their that anal about it, they either need to suck it up or find others like themselves to roll with.

[BlueKing]

I'm sorry, but that's hilarious. I haven't run into any "grr n00b" so far, but I just got 30 GLD so we'll see what happens. Sorry you had to go through that OP. If their that anal about it, they either need to suck it up or find others like themselves to roll with.

Oh It gets worse ;D The instant I unlocked "Stone Vigil" I thought "here we go again". And guess what, yup. I'm seriously considering to just stop because of the shitty people on this game, If no one is willing to cooperate or at least HELP EACHOTHER than what's the point in this "mmo".

[Iceea2]

It's been real interesting reading this thread. I've been doing MMOs for over 10 yrs but this is the first time ever I've made a tank. And that was because of a fat-finger during the opening days craziness, just trying to play anywhere you could log on. So yea I'm nervous, my GLD is up to 20 and I haven't done Sastasha yet. I've been through it with my archer and I'll be doing it with my LAN maybe tonight. So I'll have a good idea of how it goes. But still all those questions, can I hold hate, can I mark the mobs fast enough, will I have my combos set up right, what if the DPS grabs the wrong mob, etc. I'm looking forward to it with some trepidation. Hopefully I won't suck too bad. So if you're on Durandal and see a shell shocked GLD mumbling to herself - you'll know how it went.

Cheeers!

[James1213]

People like that are generally the minority and the people that are like that will start complaint how there are no good players in the duty finder. There are things ya can do to off set not knowing an instance look up videos or starts for boss fights google is your friend. If a person is unwilling to do an instance with a new tank and would rather wait an hour que again it's their thing don't worry bout it

Ways to avoid being called a shitty tank
If you are a gld or a pld check out the guide for them found in this forum. Gives some pretty good insight how to do multi target pulls.

Mark your targets as you see fit if a dps pulls something that's not the number 1 target it's on them for not following numbers

Let your party know when it's cool for them to aoe

Click off regen when it's on you when pulling new groups of enemies

Keep you gear up to date

Remind your smn to turn off their pet stun abilities so you can interrupt without the mob being immune

My opinion

[Noshpan]

Because I fully expect the volatility of MMOs in general to be in the duty finder, I fully intend to tank/heal with friends & FC mates only. I know that they will be a heck of a lot more forgiving for me learning to be a tank or healer. (Which is odd 'cause I started with the intent of being dd)

[PetiteMalFleur]

I am a healer and enjoy running dungeons with obviously new tanks. Some just don't understand their role's abilities yet. I've queued up to enter halfway through a dungeon and seen there's some obvious tension between the DDs and tank. No one goes in wanting to be a bad tank so I just roll with it, try to give suggestions, and calm the frustrations of the others. No one's perfect and there's a ton of pressure on the tank to keep hate when the DPS are both attacking random mobs. By the upper level dungeons most of the tanking I've seen has been pretty decent.

I agree most of the level 50s are power players grinding for gear. The friends I know will take the time to run low level dungeons over and over to help out friends. They haven't hit 50 yet. Give the community more time to mature.

There's also the option of joining a free company. If you can find a tight knit group I'm sure they'd love to bring in a new tank and help you learn your role better.

[l33tbmb]

Tanking makes me mad paranoid, I tend to only want to play with people I know because if and when I screw up they won't get all up in my grill about it. So far my tanking hasn't been terrible, but I'm not scared of running into these types of groups who will make my already massive insecurities about tanking even worse because of their impatience and unwillingness to let people learn how to play the game. Thankfully to them I say, goodbye and enjoy your queue. I have enough friends to keep me going and having actual fun while you sit around waiting to play.

[Resolute]

I have not had any rude groups yet, even when I have said I haven't done the dungeon. But that is probably true for most people I am grouping with since I am only in the high 20s so far. I also have tanked in other MMOs, so I easily saw which of my abilities are most important and how they should be used. Newer tanks will have a steeper learning curve for playing their class. My only bad experience so far was a not so good healer that would only start healing me when I got to around 25-40%. Until that point, he was spamming his stupid rock spell to damage the mobs. :P

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Hopefully I never run into groups with such shitty characters. When I'm playing a dungeon for the first time, I tell my party companions about it. Most of the cases, it's their first run as well. If it's not, I ask for advice. The last night I queued for Sunken Temple of Quarn and I was in panic, because they say "This dungeon defines if you are a worthy tank". I was scared to death about my performance. Hopefully, I kept my gear updated and I never lost emnity, everything was fine. We wiped a couple of times at the first boss until we got the right strategy since everyone was new in this instance. No one complaint about our wipes since we were having a lot of fun. That dungeon was more complex than the previous ones and everyone was very excited.

So, if it happens that a party member leaves because "I am new", that is lame and I hate that kind of playerbase. The other day I was replaying Ifrit and one of my party members was enjoying the cutscene. Other member complaint about it and I had to ask him to stop whining and if he can let him enjoy the game. He didn't respond me and we fought Ifrit normally.

If you people reach level 50, don't become douchebags!!! Help other people, guide them and be kind. This is a MMO and your selfishness (Because they are in hurry searching for their own benefit) should not interfere in other's experience. It doesn't hurt to be polite.

PD: Sorry for my english. It is not my first language.

[CyanDvai]

I've yet to do Sunken Temple of Quarn.
I've had no problems with the people I've ran into when I've been new to an instance.
This morning I just finished Cape Westwind with a group of 8 players who were all new to the instance (granted this was far easier then Garuda) and even though we died twice in the attempt no one complained and everyone offered up good suggestions on what to change up in our next attempt.

If someone wants to bitch and moan about a person being new to an instance and not help them learn then they're always free to leave to sit in a queue for another group.