Want to know why tank is almost always the role in need?

Time or two someone's gotten ahead of me because I take a couple seconds to zone into a new area. Zone in and they're already at the first pull, heading for the second. Pop sprint and try to catch up but sometimes they just continue on to the second pack not noticing or caring that the tank isn't there and then Hydaelyn isn't going to save them. Sometimes they're close enough for a gap closer and sometimes not.

What annoys me is getting rescued into things when that happens because now I don't know what's around me at first or what my positioning is. Died a time or two on that when I couldn't get mit up fast enough.

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

Maybe because we're sick of getting blamed when the healer pulls and I can't pull aggro off of them because they keep running to the second pack. Seriously, I main tank but I almost never play it in roulette because I don't know the team I'm going to get. How hard is it to just let the tank run in first?

And don't tell me to use Sprint. Sprint is part of my mitigation. I use it when I need to move faster to dodge something. it. You might as well tell me to pop Rampart between packs because it looks cool.

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Is this bait?

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

Maybe because we're sick of getting blamed when the healer pulls and I can't pull aggro off of them because they keep running to the second pack.

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That doesn't happen to me because I sprint ahead of the party the moment it begins and few people can keep up with me, nevermind run ahead. As I run through mob packs I hit my aoe attack without stopping, timing it perfectly to line up with the mobs passing through me. When any battle ends I immediately hit sprint because it lasts 20 seconds out of battles and I move on ahead before they do. It's worked in thousands of dungeon runs.

But tank isn't actually the role in need most often. The roulette's adventurer in need just doesn't update or lags.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

You should be running ahead of them. A single shield lob gives you enough enmity to hold something until someone else deals about 70x as much damage as your shield lob (or heals 140x as much).

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That's good for one mob. Meanwhile I still have to pull the other four off when the fools start AoEing. And don't tell me to cycle through. Targeting in this game is trash.

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Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi

And so you should when your mitigations are most important, which is during trash pulls that output far more damage than most boss mechanics, right?

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Yes, to dodge things. Not to get from point A to point B faster. Saying I should use it that way because the rest of my team is impatient is like saying the healer should sacrifice DPS for more heals because I don't use enough cooldowns.

I've found tanking to be easy. Do your AoE spam, use your mitigation, and that's like 90% of being a tank.

If you get aggro...and even if it's a pull i know I won't survive if I take it from you...imma do it. I'm a tank. I die first. Not you. And if I die first then I know I did my job well as long as I did my Aoe rotations and mitigations.

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

And don't tell me to use Sprint. Sprint is part of my mitigation. I use it when I need to move faster to dodge something. it.

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You're using sprint wrong, then.
Tank main since the start and if someones pulling ahead of me it's a good indication I'm not going fast enough. Thankfully it never happens as I use sprint to get there.

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

Maybe because we're sick of getting blamed when the healer pulls and I can't pull aggro off of them because they keep running to the second pack. Seriously, I main tank but I almost never play it in roulette because I don't know the team I'm going to get. How hard is it to just let the tank run in first?

And don't tell me to use Sprint. Sprint is part of my mitigation. I use it when I need to move faster to dodge something. it. You might as well tell me to pop Rampart between packs because it looks cool.

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I've been playing this game for nearly 10 years and have run thousands of dungeons on tank. I can probably count on one hand the number of times DPS or healers ran in front of me. It is this player's opinion that if this is a common problem for you... it is probably your problem. The moment that barrier drops, start going. The moment trash mobs are dead, start moving to the next group/boss. Other players shouldn't be in front of you that often.

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Originally Posted by dspguy

I've been playing this game for nearly 10 years and have run thousands of dungeons on tank. I can probably count on one hand the number of times DPS or healers ran in front of me. It is this player's opinion that if this is a common problem for you... it is probably your problem. The moment that barrier drops, start going. The moment trash mobs are dead, start moving to the next group/boss. Other players shouldn't be in front of you that often.

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I do this. Not exactly possible when you have a ranged DPS standing by the exit when the boss dies (an option I don't have since I'm melee and have to position the boss a certain way) hit sprint and go. It doesn't happen all the time. It just happens enough that its frustrating.

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

That's good for one mob. Meanwhile I still have to pull the other four off when the fools start AoEing. And don't tell me to cycle through. Targeting in this game is trash.

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You should be AoEing too. I'm not going to sit there single targetting when I can do 5x-8x as much damage with AoEs.