Average tanking experience.

[drunk driver]

Healers ignore you, when you ping them to heal they still ignore, so i started spamming "i need healing" for the rest of the match and got told to kill myself. Very good would recommend.

[Karnarax]

Yeah, tanking is a thankless job. Always forced to solo tank, if your dps and or healers are trash - you can't do anything. And then 3/10 dps players blame you for making no space, even though you've asked to kill Storm countless times and was sweating your balls off solo tanking.

[Krumpazoid]

Refuse to play tank. If people complain, you tell them to pick a tank.
I am myself never going to play tank ever again.

[ObjectOrient]

Originally posted by drunk driver:

Healers ignore you, when you ping them to heal they still ignore, so i started spamming "i need healing" for the rest of the match and got told to kill myself. Very good would recommend.

BAD healers will ignore you.

I obsess on keeping good tanks healed, because it is tanks that create space, push the front line, initiate dives and hold chokes. I prioritize them above DPS for heals. Half the time the DPS are trying to flank well out of site anyways.

Notice, I said 'good tanks'. Some tanks just like to feed. After one or two team fights you can usually tell who those tanks are and de-prioritize keeping them alive in favor of team mates that are actually trying to play to the objectives of the map.

[X-Psibian]

First rule of Tanking: never ask for healing. It only irritates the healers.

[Karnarax]

Originally posted by Space DVAs69:

First rule of Tanking: never ask for healing. It only irritates the healers.

So let them tank themselves then. I ain't tanking wo heals. Usually, I just switch to dps and we lose, because other team has 2 2 2.

[TrashMobRelic]

>I was Loki close to lord after having already gotten Mantis, Jeff, Rocket, and Cloak as lord.
>Domination 1-1, team got wiped after a series of ults.
>Map is the soldier factory where at 50% the doors close and rotate.
>I revive with Strange and run up and ping to retreat in order to notify to regroup before running in.
>Strange runs past me.
>Doesn't stop.
>Rest of team is at least 5-7 seconds behind.
>Strange is now in a 1v6.
>I land 3 of my five shots to heal him before he goes left and runs behind the big engine.
> Now that he has broken LOS, I cannot heal him and I am not going to follow so team can be down 2 in the next fight so I reload since i can't see him to heal him anyways.
>Strange peaks a 1v6 at half health instead of trying to get more heals still out of LOS.
>Dies the moment he steps out.
>"Where the ♥♥♥♥ was the Loki at? I wasn't getting healed at all"

maybe its your healers, maybe its you and your positioning.

[gator]

lol why are you picking tank? you're supposed to instalock dps like everyone else

[Nicostromo]

My experience as a duelist is : Fight for my life, get a double kill, plea for healing, get no healing, get ganked (murdered) by 2 other people, see supports being heal bots for our one tank who is in a stalemate fight with the enemy tank.

Wondering : if I kill 2 enemies, and then proceed to get killed by 2 other enemies, that makes up 4/6 people on the enemy team i'm dealing with - who the hell are the other 5 members of my team fighting???

[Karnarax]

Originally posted by Nicostromo:

My experience as a duelist is : Fight for my life, get a double kill, plea for healing, get no healing, get ganked (murdered) by 2 other people, see supports being heal bots for our one tank who is in a stalemate fight with the enemy tank.

Wondering : if I kill 2 enemies, and then proceed to get killed by 2 other enemies, that makes up 4/6 people on the enemy team i'm dealing with - who the hell are the other 5 members of my team fighting???

Why are you "fighting for your life"? Don't stay in front of your tank