I enjoy tanking, but it tends to be pretty hit and miss. Sometimes I'll stumble across a brilliant group of players that are experienced or simply willing to listen to feedback and learn how to defeat a particular boss that they're struggling with. I actually enjoy the latter type of group more, since it feels a lot more satisfying when the last boss finally falls to the ground.
However, I have absolutely no patience for players that...well, have no patience! I loathe it when I'm trying to look out for the party and another player - usually a DPS, though I've had a couple of healers do it as well - runs ahead and pulls enemies before I have a chance to mark targets and gain their undivided attention. Even if the culprit doesn't die the situation feels rather messy and I've seen groups break apart with insults thrown my way for being a 'bad tank' even though I've done nothing wrong.
I suspect situations such as the scenario I described are one of the reasons as to why so many players end up avoiding tanking or healing altogether. I'm certainly not perfect and make my own fair share of stupid mistakes whilst tanking, but I do my best to own up and apologise to the other members of my party when it happens. I'm getting a little tired of players expecting a dungeon run forged through the duty finder to go flawlessly and with absolutely no mistakes made. Even at the highest level of raiding - and I speak from experience since I did a lot of high end raiding back in WoW - wipes happen. It's better to strive to identify and remedy the problem after laughing it off instead of raging and quitting the moment one player makes a mistake.
However, I have absolutely no patience for players that...well, have no patience! I loathe it when I'm trying to look out for the party and another player - usually a DPS, though I've had a couple of healers do it as well - runs ahead and pulls enemies before I have a chance to mark targets and gain their undivided attention. Even if the culprit doesn't die the situation feels rather messy and I've seen groups break apart with insults thrown my way for being a 'bad tank' even though I've done nothing wrong.
I suspect situations such as the scenario I described are one of the reasons as to why so many players end up avoiding tanking or healing altogether. I'm certainly not perfect and make my own fair share of stupid mistakes whilst tanking, but I do my best to own up and apologise to the other members of my party when it happens. I'm getting a little tired of players expecting a dungeon run forged through the duty finder to go flawlessly and with absolutely no mistakes made. Even at the highest level of raiding - and I speak from experience since I did a lot of high end raiding back in WoW - wipes happen. It's better to strive to identify and remedy the problem after laughing it off instead of raging and quitting the moment one player makes a mistake.
