I started playing FFXIV about 3 weeks ago and joined a real life friend's FC. I originally picked a Lancer to play because I almost always play melee DPS in MMO games, but the queue times for duties were averaging 30 minutes each for me, so I decided to play a Warrior instead since I like playing a role with physical melee damage. Plus, since I had never played a tank before I thought a new challenge might be just the thing to revitalize my love for the genre.
I've gotten all the way to level 51 and I think I'm nearing the end of A Realm Reborn. I do a leveling duty every day, and of course all of the main story duties / trials as well. But after all this time and getting this far, I still cannot shake the anxiety that I get every single time I join a duty. I feel like I'm carrying the weight of every success or failure on my shoulders. Every time I mess up I can't help but think my entire party saw that, and even if they didn't, my healer did and now they can't do as much DPS as they should because they have to heal me more. My heart feels like it's going to beat out of my chest every time I join a queue. People in FC chat are constantly complaining about their bad tanks, and the wipes they suffer, and I don't know.. maybe it's given me a complex.
I watch tank role guides, managing cool-downs for maximizing my dps while limiting damage taken, practice on training dummies, video after video on YouTube describing exactly how to get through various duties and bosses, and I even solo the duties that are low enough in an attempt to explore and actually understand the the map layout and boss mechanics. Even with all of that, I still feel like I don't know shit. There are SO many dungeons / trials, each with their own enemies and mechanics. On top of that the constant new skills that I acquire. I have 20 different combat skill buttons now! Some of them are easy (especially the global cool-downs), but some are so situational that by the time the situation actually occurs I either forgot I even had the skill, or can't react fast enough to actually use it. I just can't remember it all. It's like every time I start to feel a tiny bit comfortable the game throws a truck-load of new stuff at me and I have to spend all of that time trying to learn that too. By the time I do that I start forgetting the old stuff. There are still several dungeons that I unlocked that I haven't even run yet because they never show up in the leveling roulette. I just want to be a good party member, but I don't know if I can. I honestly don't think I've ever felt this stressed out playing a video game before. I don't even stress like this at my real life job.
Anyways, regardless of all of the challenges I've finally gotten to the lvl 50 main story quest Castrum Meridianum, which is an 8-person duty. I've watched a 10-minute tank role video for it three times in a row now and... just... the amount of stuff I am supposed to remember seems insurmountable. I honestly don't know how you guys do it. I feel like I wouldn't remember all of the stuff even after several runs. It's just so much. I just know I'm going to screw it up and make countless mistakes while running it.
Despite all of that, there is so much that I do like about the game. I have a really great time when I'm soloing. I think they've built a beautiful world that I can't stop taking screenshots of. I know the general consensus is that ARR isn't very good, but I actually like it quite a bit. The Japanese style of sometimes serious, sometimes goofy, fantasy fiction is really fun and appealing to me. I also like the combat mechanics a lot. I love the lore and world building that they do. I even like all of the side-quests. That part of the game is exactly what I signed up for. It's super chill, fun, and keeps me entertained, with constant goals to achieve and progress that I can see in both my armor, new enemies, and new locations.
But, I am at an impasse. I really want to get over this and start enjoying this game that so many people love, but I am STRUGGLING. This whole post is really a way for me to procrastinate actually doing that next story raid that I need to do because the thought of it is stressing me the hell out.
So, I guess I would ask all of you tanks out there, and all the people who have played a tank, did you ever feel like this and did it ever get any easier? Do you ever get to a point where you don't stress joining a new duty queue? Any feedback is appreciated.
~Cheers
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I've gotten all the way to level 51 and I think I'm nearing the end of A Realm Reborn. I do a leveling duty every day, and of course all of the main story duties / trials as well. But after all this time and getting this far, I still cannot shake the anxiety that I get every single time I join a duty. I feel like I'm carrying the weight of every success or failure on my shoulders. Every time I mess up I can't help but think my entire party saw that, and even if they didn't, my healer did and now they can't do as much DPS as they should because they have to heal me more. My heart feels like it's going to beat out of my chest every time I join a queue. People in FC chat are constantly complaining about their bad tanks, and the wipes they suffer, and I don't know.. maybe it's given me a complex.
I watch tank role guides, managing cool-downs for maximizing my dps while limiting damage taken, practice on training dummies, video after video on YouTube describing exactly how to get through various duties and bosses, and I even solo the duties that are low enough in an attempt to explore and actually understand the the map layout and boss mechanics. Even with all of that, I still feel like I don't know shit. There are SO many dungeons / trials, each with their own enemies and mechanics. On top of that the constant new skills that I acquire. I have 20 different combat skill buttons now! Some of them are easy (especially the global cool-downs), but some are so situational that by the time the situation actually occurs I either forgot I even had the skill, or can't react fast enough to actually use it. I just can't remember it all. It's like every time I start to feel a tiny bit comfortable the game throws a truck-load of new stuff at me and I have to spend all of that time trying to learn that too. By the time I do that I start forgetting the old stuff. There are still several dungeons that I unlocked that I haven't even run yet because they never show up in the leveling roulette. I just want to be a good party member, but I don't know if I can. I honestly don't think I've ever felt this stressed out playing a video game before. I don't even stress like this at my real life job.
Anyways, regardless of all of the challenges I've finally gotten to the lvl 50 main story quest Castrum Meridianum, which is an 8-person duty. I've watched a 10-minute tank role video for it three times in a row now and... just... the amount of stuff I am supposed to remember seems insurmountable. I honestly don't know how you guys do it. I feel like I wouldn't remember all of the stuff even after several runs. It's just so much. I just know I'm going to screw it up and make countless mistakes while running it.
Despite all of that, there is so much that I do like about the game. I have a really great time when I'm soloing. I think they've built a beautiful world that I can't stop taking screenshots of. I know the general consensus is that ARR isn't very good, but I actually like it quite a bit. The Japanese style of sometimes serious, sometimes goofy, fantasy fiction is really fun and appealing to me. I also like the combat mechanics a lot. I love the lore and world building that they do. I even like all of the side-quests. That part of the game is exactly what I signed up for. It's super chill, fun, and keeps me entertained, with constant goals to achieve and progress that I can see in both my armor, new enemies, and new locations.
But, I am at an impasse. I really want to get over this and start enjoying this game that so many people love, but I am STRUGGLING. This whole post is really a way for me to procrastinate actually doing that next story raid that I need to do because the thought of it is stressing me the hell out.
So, I guess I would ask all of you tanks out there, and all the people who have played a tank, did you ever feel like this and did it ever get any easier? Do you ever get to a point where you don't stress joining a new duty queue? Any feedback is appreciated.
~Cheers
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