Tank Training

[Loving]

If you can't take the time to read the tool tips that explain your move, which in turn, allow you to learn how to tank...well maybe you just shouldn't be putting other peoples HP in your hands. Maybe you should DPS.

[Keneblerz]

I am LOL so hard at this thread. Is it really that hard to find a good tank? I mean ive been tanking from Beta and the class quests made a point in teaching me how to use Flash. Whenever mobs would attack the NPC and they would spam Heartstopper for days. I would lose everytime until i realized what flash did. (along with not standing in the AOE)

[Rydiah]

I am LOL so hard at this thread. Is it really that hard to find a good tank? I mean ive been tanking from Beta and the class quests made a point in teaching me how to use Flash. Whenever mobs would attack the NPC and they would spam Heartstopper for days. I would lose everytime until i realized what flash did. (along with not standing in the AOE)

It has been pretty hard for me lately. Once I started doing Brayflox I've noticed an...unusual amount of tanks that don't know what they're doing. They will always focus on one mob only, everyone is getting hit...You can run it to them or say, "Please get this off me" but they will still stay on that one mob until its dead. You can try to be friendly and give them some advice without being a jerk, but they won't listen.

You don't notice if you're playing a tank, just like I don't understand how you can have a bad healer...its pretty easy! But going through a few dungeons as a tank, I ran into a lot of healers who simply don't heal. You really should try doing a few dungeons as a dps or healer sometime so you can see just how many tanks right now just don't know what they're doing. I don't think people are complaining about decent tanks that lose aggro every now and then, its a bunch of tanks that have seemingly never been in a dungeon or any kind of group content before.

[Haibel]

For all those lvl 35+ tanks/dps that still havnt learnt their roles. Sunken Temple - Temple Guardian Gollem is a great way to for you guys to learn your respective roles, especially healers lol. That boss is a time sync for those who dont understand their roles.

Brayfox is also a Good training dungeon. There are mechanic's in that dungeon that I see people ignore. Such as the second boss fight.
the last phase of that fight when the large Drake is after the gobbie, he keeps putting up Blaze Spikes. I have always get a chuckle watching some
Pug or Lnc get pissed at me, thinking I lost hate because they are taking massive amounts of dmg. even if I tell them before the fight to not hit the dragon before the fight
they still do it. There is a reason cancel auto attack is a General action. Sometimes not hit a mob is the right thing to do.

[Keneblerz]

Brayfox is also a Good training dungeon. There are mechanic's in that dungeon that I see people ignore. Such as the second boss fight.

Yeh, the level 30+ dungeons really define your party role. And one thing i like to do before beginning a dungeon is to always chat with my party members to see where their heads are at. If they've done it before, any tips/tricks, to see if they know anything.