WAR (Warhammer Online)

My playing time in WAR is usually the same things I have noticed. A normal playing would look something like this.

A TANKS LIFE

* Log in
* Getting tell about tanking for something somewhere.
* Check the auction house, get some pots, some craft mats, maybe some gear for an alt. (AH addict i am!)
* Getting tell about tanking for something somewhere.
* Write a juicy ingame mail to my wife. Getting 2-3 tells while figuring out juicy stuff to write to my lovely wife with her UBER heals. (Double reason to mail her ingame, for the heals and for the loving!)
* Getting tell about tanking for something somewhere.
* Duoing with the wife, do some quests, explore. Kindly answer tells that I will tank for them in a while, duoing with wife atm.
* Do a PQ or two with the wife, get shafted at rolls of course, as a tank my dps is very low and my healing lower. Wife usually keeps us up a bit in the list tho due to her great skills in healing everything, (she would heal the mob i was killing if she could, she would!)
* Whine some to the wife that tanks get shafted.
* Enter a scenario or two, protect healers, be the guy who takes the beating to save the rest of the people. Get thank you tells for saving
squishies and defending them who need it. Get shafted when scoreboard comes up.
* Be so annoyed with the PQs and Scenarios as tank that I whine some more to my wife who says the usual. "Lets go with some group so you can tank something honey".
* Accept one of all the tells to tank something, do my thing and keep the mobs on me and save the aggro nubs that wont listen. Even tho I let them die a couple of times if they dont listen. Get whined on for beeing a bad tank when they die. (makes me snicker). Then they whine on wife for not healing, they usually flip out when i inform them that i told them 4-5 times to listen to what i say, and they died because they did not. Add them to ignore and no group list after they do some harassment tells. All good, filters out the bad eggs so you know not to group with them.
* End the day with getting shafted in in some scenario or PQ due to my tanking spec, taking damage for your team and saving squishies dont count for much sadly.
* Going to bed whining to wife about the poor state of tanks. Wife cures it with her magic touch and *censored*
* Wake up next day, and do the same thing again! I will never learn!

(I get quite a lot of tells because I usually am a pretty friendly guy, but mostly because I am a tank and that is what I do, and people usually dont say no to a tank/healer combo that knows what they are doing. Great rep with community helps, but my friends list is way too big atm!)

A bit ironic this post is, I like the game, having fun usually, but my tank is starting to collect dust. Not fun to play as it is now, I want my contribution to be valued as much as the lil kid who spams his dps on everything and dont see all the times he get saved by some tank who steps in to protect him and then have the nerves to bitch and moan on you if they actually die.

Cmon Mythic, give this old craynky tanky a spanky of joy by boosting our contribution in PQs and Scenarios to actually be worth a bit more. I would like to see all those dps tank that hero themselves.

Thank you!

Kerebo

true tanks have issues ingame atm, that i agree on fully.

maybe adding some more info on scoreboards, how much dmg people taken, how much people taken for others or something :) That would make the BW kiddies rethink hehe

made me LOL

hang in there buddy, they will sort it out, or they wont have tanks left. And without them, there is a lot of content lost.

Yhea, hopefully they will attend this issue soon. :)

Wish more ppl would vote on my poll! :)

I play an Ironbreaker that is pure tank specc and I usually don't have a problem doing well in PQs. However, I know for a fact that other tanks like Swordmasters don't have a damn problem the PQ/Keep scoreboards. 

I was in a small PQ warband a few nights ago and after doing 4 PQs I had noticed that each time the top three contributions were always Swordmasters (this doesn't mean they won all of the loot though).

They were all DPS specced Swordmasters by the way.

im tank spec so the thread should be about tank specced chars. They not really tanks if they specced differently now when I think about it :)

First of all, it does apply since Damage and Damage Taken are both factored into the scoreboards.

When you have a Damage specced tank who runs in and does both good damage and offtanks he will naturally get a higher score than a pure tank spec who runs in to focus on defense and tanking with minimal focus on the damage he is causing. This gives DPS specced tanks the ability to rank higher in contribution. Thus backing up the idea that damage taken should contribute more to your overall score than it does now.

Secondly, sorry for contributing to the thread and poll.  

I'm a 37 SM and i have honestly never experience anything you have written there.  Except for the PQ thing.  I've gotten dead last a number of times on the contribution board but i've also somehow made #1 quite a few times as well.  I have so many god damn pots in my inventory I'm getting sick of it since i never use em.

 I'll show this to teh wife when I get home, she's the tank, I'm the healer, I think she'll agree with it.. cept for writing letters part.  She never does that.