I'll start by saying I pre-ordered ARR and was a day one player. I stopped playing because I couldn't get into the game and picked it back up when 3.0 was released due to DRK being playable. It's my favorite job in all of FF...From there on out, I've played tank ever since leveling all 4 to 80.
With the delay in patches due to COVID, I've been stepping out of my comfort zone leveling SAM, DRG, RDM to 80 and MCH, MNK, and BRD (which I like the most) to high 70s. I've even tried healing which I just don't find fun.
Anyway...the point of this post. PLEASE, please, please to all the tanks out there....stop grabbing a group of mobs (2-4 enemies) letting the group burn through 2 or 3 and running to the next pack. You might as well just grab both and let the group burn them down in their entirety. In doing this, buffs that enabled are wasted because you're spending time running to the next group. Now the DPS and healers have to spend time re-applying debuffs and buffs/sheilds when they could have just done that from the start with a larger pull.
Speaking of "big pulls," I've always been the type not to force players to do this as I know that there is a thing called tank anxiety. But honestly, if you're not pulling big you aren't playing as efficiently as you could be. I encourage you to just try it. It's really not that bad. Use your cooldowns and don't stand in AoEs. Use positioning. Trust your healer. Running through dungeons with tanks that pull one group at a time isn't terrible but man does it make dungeon running feel 10x longer than it needs to be.
Continue reading...
With the delay in patches due to COVID, I've been stepping out of my comfort zone leveling SAM, DRG, RDM to 80 and MCH, MNK, and BRD (which I like the most) to high 70s. I've even tried healing which I just don't find fun.
Anyway...the point of this post. PLEASE, please, please to all the tanks out there....stop grabbing a group of mobs (2-4 enemies) letting the group burn through 2 or 3 and running to the next pack. You might as well just grab both and let the group burn them down in their entirety. In doing this, buffs that enabled are wasted because you're spending time running to the next group. Now the DPS and healers have to spend time re-applying debuffs and buffs/sheilds when they could have just done that from the start with a larger pull.
Speaking of "big pulls," I've always been the type not to force players to do this as I know that there is a thing called tank anxiety. But honestly, if you're not pulling big you aren't playing as efficiently as you could be. I encourage you to just try it. It's really not that bad. Use your cooldowns and don't stand in AoEs. Use positioning. Trust your healer. Running through dungeons with tanks that pull one group at a time isn't terrible but man does it make dungeon running feel 10x longer than it needs to be.
Continue reading...