Is this a common thing for tanks to do?

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Originally Posted by Adire

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Honestly, I see nothing wrong with those comments. /shrug I guess it is a perception thing.

Oh well, thanks for responding. I was just curious.

I'm not here to upset you further though, so I'm going to bow out of this for now. I do sincerely hope you have better experiences in future runs. ^^

I don't know how many times I have seen terrible tanks try pulling everything in a zone. They don't use cooldowns, that don't hit everything... or anything half the time and then they cause a wipe. How do they handle this? By doing it again and then yelling at the healer.

The problem is dumb people see an overgeared tank do it and they think they can do it as well... or they have an overgeared healer friend that has been carrying them.

Its your fault always if you heal before the pull is over(ALWAYS). Sounds like you are not accustomed to it and failed to me. If the tank dies because you cant keep up when he stops, he does not know his limitations well enough and or one of you is poorly geared and needs to git gud. Plus if he dies because he pulled too much, you are absolved of all blame(unless you need to git gud) lol

If a tank only gets face aggro while pulling groups, he's bad. Sure, you can miss some mobs, but it's easy to snap them right back. No reason a mob should be beating on anyone else but that tank, for more than a few seconds at most.

No player is perfect, but people think they are perfect, and DF just love to put those "perfect players" together.

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Originally Posted by Meow9000

One thing I feel people forget to mention is that it helps when tanks pop cool downs while they're actually pulling, especially if you have some distance between mobs. I.E in Fractal, 3rd pull after grabbing the first group as a DRK I'll pop foresight and dark dance, and then shadow skin and convalescence after the second group has been grabbed. Using your less important cool downs to help survive while grabbing mobs will help your healer loads

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Do you walk backwards from the first group of mobs to the second group? Cus if not you just wasted dark dance, thanks for the advice though

Edit: We have beat this topic to death multiple times in the past, the general consensus is that in DF you should always tag everything because you aren't in constant communication with the healer and typing stuff takes too damn long mid pull. However if you know the healer going in it is much more efficient (resource management, time, agro, damage taken) to pull things from the edge of their packs and avoid as much damage as possible while cutting every corner you can to get the mobs in place.