Feeling useless and demotivated playing a tank

[Nameless]

It is worse for tanks cos you are much more dependant from your group. You should not join pug wbs but more organized wbs that looking for /5 tanks. That way you had at least semi coordinated wb and the renown and bag gain is best.
The biggest problem and reason you see less tanks and healers at ovrv is that dps takes all the rewards.

[Dackjanielz]

It sounds to me like you are doing your duty as a tank - its up to the team to become victorious from that point, not your fault.

As captain Picard once said, sometimes you can do all the right things in life and still lose.

But yeah if its bumming you out then play something else!

Personally i love being a tank, i never kill anything but it also removes the stress of having to care about killing people - my role is to be a disruptive wee git which i find entertaining, and i often sacrifice myself to save others, its not for everyone.

[Shima]

As a tank-tank, you must be annoying. Kd and KB enemy, challenge, go to the middle of the mob and throw ppl to your team to kill. Sttager them! Root them! Make enemy hate you by being annoying and not a kill machine!

[Mooselager]

Recently I have rolled a tank to help my side. It's not what I usually enjoy in RoR, I've always been a DPS through and through. But order severely lacks tanks, especially def tanks in oRvR, so here we are.

Sorry, I'm just going to stop at this part. You are forcing yourself to play something you don't enjoy during your recreational time. I think you should play what you want to play and be happy while doing it, interact and network in game to meet some friends so you can pair up with them.

I repeat, play what YOU enjoy to make you happy, don't be influenced by others on what class to play. If you have friends guildies influencing you on what to play, find new friends/guildies.

[billyk]

>Order lacks tanks
>Roll tank
>Realize why Order lacks tanks
A tale as old as time.

[Detangler]

A good guard swapping tank can absolutely hard carry scenarios. Don't give up!

[Mooselager]

>Order lacks tanks
>Roll tank
>Realize why Order lacks tanks
A tale as old as time.

Hahaha thanks, this gave me boisterous laugh.

[Dackjanielz]

>Order lacks tanks
>Roll tank
>Realize why Order lacks tanks
A tale as old as time.

What's wrong with order tanks?

Thought knight and IB were both really solid no?

[jafh123]

>Order lacks tanks
>Roll tank
>Realize why Order lacks tanks
A tale as old as time.

What's wrong with order tanks?

Thought knight and IB were both really solid no?

IB is weak

[gersy]

playing snb tank in pugs (and most non-org content in general) is often unrewarding indeed. you're mostly just a guard/aura/buff bot and most of your plays won't make a huge difference. best you can really do in most pug situations is stay in guard range, try to make guard swaps and not hand out immunities to your enemy like candy (a lot of tank players think they are helping when they walk in and immediately use aoe root/aoe stagger on cooldown but this is probably the single most detrimental thing you can do as a tank)

but playing tanks in coordinated gameplay is arguably some of the most rewarding and highest potential skill cap gameplay in all of RoR. tanks often decide who gets the kill and who dies when two skilled teams are fighting one another.

scoring the right punt at the right time is crucial for both earning kills and preventing them, playing situationally around/tracking immunities on multiple players at once, not allowing yourself to be punted/engaging in the "dance" with enemy tanks to punt them, pre-emptive guard swaps just before a "go" happens on your teammate, etc. all contribute to a really engaging gameplay loop. you can see the difference between player skill levels extremely easily in this environment.

imo get prebis 2h parry set (bloodlord/victorious/nightless, etc.), find a 6man and do some smallscale roaming or SC premades and you will likely find yourself being more useful and more engaged that way. you'll also learn and improve at the game way more than being a guardbot in open wbs. few things are more fulfilling in this game than playing well as a tank and helping your team kite a full wb across half a lake in a 6v24 while scoring good punts and KDs which allow you to pick them off 1 by 1 until they give up chasing you because you outplayed them so hard.