Warning: long story/rant lol.
So I see a shout for Ultima HM and decide I wanna go for it. (Did a Duty Finder last night and made it 3 times to countdown, but just couldn't finish.) I hop in and get a friendly party chat message from a member basically saying all I needed to do was take some damage for the team (sounding like they had done this before easily). We fill last spot with a war and we head in. Me and the other tank make our arrangements and agree on swithching @3 stacks blah, blah, blah and we go for it. Get into the fray and Ifrit dash and laser shows seem to be a bit of trouble for healers and one goes down, then gets raised and then the battle starts getting a bit shakey cause they are battling to keep everyone who is taking damage from not dodging alive along with keeping tanks up at the laser show. Defractive laser does off, and needless to say , due to low health cause mages were dodging lasers and healing sparsely, the tank at the time eats it and it proves to much for rest of team and we wipe.
@ restart, the SMN asks "What's going on? I've never seen a tank take so much damage in this fight."
... I stared at my screen for a min and simply said "defractive laser is a pain, if we tanks don't have HP replenished, it can take us out."
Next two rounds, same story, both me and other tank working hard with cooldowns, and switching like pros, but others are taking damage from mechanics and healers are going down from it.
SMN: "are you taking damage from lasers??" He asks me.
... I take a deep breath and as I reply "I'm using every cooldown I have..." The other tank chimes in to explain defractive laser again.
SMN says that we should exit so he can DPS in his SCH and help keep us alive.
After another failed attempt, we exit and I explain that I had to head out to head over to my sisters.
A melee sends out a "good" in chat while SMN says happily " Ok, we'll replace, np!" And was promptly kicked lol.
I held my peace, but I really wanted to blast the SMN and the one making the snarky "good" comment for blaming us tanks for losses, when both healers and other DPS in the group couldn't avoid mechanics.
I sent a tell to the other tank and wished him GL because I knew he'd need it. I'm good now, but I must admit, those comments from the mouthy SMN just kinda ruffled my feathers a bit. Funny how he died a few times as well and turned a blind eye to his healer buddies deaths to place blame for wipes on us tanks.
Anyway, just thought I'd share/rant a bit of this story.
Edited, Dec 29th 2013 1:10am by jayfly