Tankitude

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PSA AND HELLO!

Hey all!! I promise you, the mods aren’t dead! We’re doing fine despite all this stuff going on with the world.

I’m just in recovery mode from major back surgery right now. :’D My surgery was like... July, I’m still trying to recover from it. :’D I wanna go back to work, I’m worried about being fired for taking too long to recover.

Anywho!! I hope everyone is doing well, is safe, and taking care of yourselves!

These times are tough and hard, but we can get through this! I’m cheering everyone on!

- Mod Rose

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Tank problems: When the DPS run off to the next destination while the mob is still at near full HP.

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[wreathed-in-myrtle]

This is a hot take

[rinhkitty]

As a healer main, this is true.

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Been leveling GNB in roulettes recently. It's already to lvl77, so I think I about understand what I'm doing. Had a MNK continuously whining at me in a lvl70 dungeon to use my AOE combo to the exclusion of anything else because "freestyling like a clown hurts your DPS, and is therefore rude to the party". I was holding aggro no problem, and I'd think that the rest is the DDs' job. Some folks really need to go outside more. It was only a dungeon; not even a raid. Yikes.

I honestly don't even know how to respond to this. On one hand I understand where you're coming from, and I totally disagree with the fact that the DPS was complaining about only using the aoe.

But at the same time my brain has hit a wall because huh? Yeah aoe isn't as strong as a single target, but I'm extremely confused on how they thought you could ONLY use your aoe combo. That's not how the game/class works.

- Mod Blade

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I’m a healer main and though getting toxicity aimed at me is…not rare, I’ve never heard or seen tanks that get blamed for anything. They pull boss to boss and ppl blame me for dying. That is, until some time ago when the tank, at the start of a lvl 60 dungeon, said that they are not going to pull big and APOLOGISED for it. I was shocked. I was too scared to ask why they felt they had to apologise for that. I responded by telling them not to worry, that I prefer small pulls. We had a great run.

:O That’s very true about that first party, it’s really not rare.

But wow! I’m surprised myself! Yet you reacted appropriately and I’m glad the DPS also didn’t try to push for a bigger pull! :D I’m glad you had a great run~!

- Mod Rose

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Though I’m a healer main, to this day I rarely ever heal in expert roulette or max lvl dungeons if my sister isn’t the tank. I’ve seen so many tanks pull 3-4 in lvl 80 dungeons. The most recent one was the pull of 4 mobs in Amnesis Anyder I saw yesterday... the tank barely survived and I have no confidence I can heal that. Surely, that kind of pull is not to be expected of healers?

Now a days I think people expect healers to just adjust and heal through everything otherwise it's our fault for everything, when it's really a combination of everything.

But yeah, :/ I think this is expected for healers and if we can't keep up, we get yelled at.

If we wipe to a big pull then just pull smaller, theres no need, or excuse, to make ANYONE feel bad for not living up to YOUR expectations. People have different skill sets and that's okay! We're here to have fun!

- Mod Rose

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So these came in the mail today.

- Mod Rose

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Trusts are a godsend, truly. I recently got to lvl 80 PLD thanks to trusts! And I think I may be able to try tanking roulettes? Toxic people though…

If you want to try tanking a roulette and not have to deal with too many toxic people, send Rose and I a message in-game or here on Tumblr. We will gladly come with you and help you endure those first-time jitters!

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Are you still giving out invitations for your cross-world Linkshell and/or Fellowship?

We most certaintly are! Just hit us up in-game anytime! We’re under the names of Blade and Rose Kishitani on Midgardsormr. We’re usually around at some point. Or send us a message here when you’re online and we’ll find you :D

- Mod Blade

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PSA from Blade

There’s something I feel I need to say right now. And it’s in regards to the “You pull it, you tank it” motto I tend to play by.

When I say those words I don’t mean them as overly malicious or hurtful, I mean it as a form of self-punishment entitled jerks can reap what they sow because they decided my play-style wasn’t good enough for them. However there is a limit to these words.

I recently encountered some tanks where in Hades Ex (prior to 5.2) they used these words against a BLM who pulled by moving a fraction of an inch too close to Hades. She apologized and admitted her mistake for the accidental early pull.

Some context: These two tanks hadn’t been doing the fight right for the last four or five pulls and were trolling, idiots who joked about murdering each other’s pets. So they were all around idiots who the whole of the party was getting fed up with.

But instead of just taking Hades off the BLM they let the whole party wipe, using the motto. And I lost it at them. I berrated them and called them out for their idiocy and b.s. and they asked why I was so upset. I told them straight out because they hadn’t been doing their jobs as tank the whole time. Finally my co-healer at the time said F-it and left, made their own party and we all blacklisted the two tanks, I took over a tank slot. We proceeded to kill Hades four times in a row in record timing.

I don’t want to sound elitest or like I’m some all-knowing God. I honestly am fine with jokes and some trolling. Lord knows I’ve done it before. But I draw the line at punishing a group of people for a single mistake someone owned up to. It’s not fair and it’s not ok to do.

I do not condone the use of the motto as a way to harm others that are undeserving of punishment. I use it as a way for people to point themselves out as the impaitent jerks they already are. Please, please, please do not use the motto “you pull it, you tank it” as a way to harm someone who makes an honest mistake.

- Mod Blade

[windupnamazu]

being a green dps is rough when your friend just likes to die

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Don't know if this has been asked or brought up before, but what do you think of DPS/Healers who pull for you?

It really depends on who I’m with. If it’s someone I know, I’ll troll them right back depending on my mood or I’ll go along with it. Otherwise, if it’s someone random I don’t know.Also depends on my mood and if Blade is with me. I’ll either be a total bitch and turn off tank stance and shirk the person who pulled ahead of me, or I’ll let it die and then leave the dungeon because I’m not dealing with that and I’ll just like take the 30min break to watch anime, play an otome, or play Fire emblem.

- Mod Rose

I’ve been known to drop tank stance and provoke - shirk them to prove my point of: you pull it, you tank it. It’s seriously a pet peeve of mine because often times when I’m not pulling large it’s because either A) The DPS can’t kill the stuff fast enough for it to be worth it, or B) If I happen to be tanking it with a pug healer and the healer in question is in really low gear.

- Mod Blade

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Tanks. Tanks *please* don't play the how many vuln stacks can I get game without okaying it with your healers first *please oh twelve above*~Was scarred by a tank constantly getting hit in Copied Factory this past week 5 was often the lowest at a time when a fight got going.(And had one of those eh....I can just do barely any healing and take 3 minutes to rez healers as coheal.)

Yikes, just... yikes.

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I feel like boasting i just got my warbear. Now to do the 140 more roulettes/dungeons that count for the next one

Congratulations! Enjoy the bear!

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Rose and I accomplished taking down Hades Ex today! It’s one hell of a grind but a pretty fun fight! :D I got lucky enough to get the bow too ^^

- Mod Blade

(P.S. It took us about 4hrs to learn/clear the fight, major thank you to the amazing group we had that stayed with us for hours)

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Dx and that was posted to the wrong blog. Ignore whatever you saw!

- Mod Rose

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ahaha, so I passed out without really meaning to, but I’m awake now and open to inviting everyone~!

Come join us~!

- Mod Rose

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Would it be easier for me to make a PF for others to join that way I can invite them that way?

- Mod Rose