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I do what I call "roulette" tanking. I tank expert, lvling, you know, faceroll stuff. I could tank the harder stuff but the tanking jobs are not my BiS job and personally, I can't bring myself to do high-level duties with a barely above ilvl tank when my smn is still the better. To sum up, when it comes to the really hard stuff, I'd rather bring my best job than my not so good one.
So yeah, I didn't answer the poll because I felt it was not applicable.
EDIT: In my ideal world, I'd be able to gear well all my jobs, that way I'd do any form of content with any of them. Magic Monday, Tanking Tuesday, etc
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When I want fast queues, I prefer to be able to contribute more DPS over leaving the healer role to a DF random. I see alot more 0dps healers than single pack tanks. Tanks doing their tankstance aggro combos are still doing a baseline of damage.
Another reason is that I usually plain dislike dungeon tank glamor and will more often roll a job that has decent glamor for Need purposes.
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I used to tank until I took an arrow in the knee.
Now I just play dps(mainly mch and maybe I'll try blm for casual roulettes).
If the tank wants to big pull I'll do my job, if that tank want to small pull or full clear I'll just turn on some jazz music and take it slow while doing my job. If the tank dies because the healer can't keep up or the tank doesn't use cds we'll just wipe and /laugh. (Despite trigger finger, I still try not to steal hate from tanks in bug pulls especially if they are undergeared or new/first time)
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Because of other players.
Technically I suppose it comes under the heading of "too stressful", but not because tanking in and of itself is very stressful.
The stress comes from other people all having an opinion on how much should pull - and not always accepting "no" as an answer to requests to pull more.
I do not mind tanking when playing with friends - in fact I rather like tanking, but when dealing with a PUG I mostly avoid tanking (and healing.)
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My main is Tank. Poll not valid
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Too stressful: I tried tanking, but my first dungeon the DPS and healer decided to keep running ahead and aggroing everytjong before I could cast my first rotation. I went in a low level dungeon; I kept saying, hey, I’m trying to learn to tank, it’s the first dungeon ever, give me a bit to try this and meh. They just kept doing it. Bought my level 60 Paladin, but plan to stick with healer and magic classes when I become a mentor anyway.
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Where's the "not my thing" option?
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I think the poll is missing the "I like the rotation of other jobs more" option.
When I didn't enjoy tanking before it was for two reasons. Because other people would make things more difficult/annoying for the tank on purpose (regen before pull of multiple targets, running ahead and pulling more, running away from tank with aggroed mobs), and because there were some things I didn't like about the combat skills of tanks (paladin had no aoe, warrior had only a cone shaped aoe).
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Tanking isn't stressful at all!
I'll start, aggro mobs, it may happen some goes rogue but who cares, that's dps fault, some random people yelling I'm not meta (aka, Sword stance fulltime) and complaining but who cares anyway, you gotta kick me if you don't like me, right? AHAHAHAH
I'm pulling at my pace, if you are in a hurry and go pull more, you may die and slow the overall process , if you really want end it as fast as possible, deal with my pace or leave or kick me. Oh, yeah!
Your playstyle is treat everything as savage content that must be done in the most efficient way? Ok. Good luck... or bad luck, you got me? Don't worry, different playstyle is reason for a legit kick, go ahead! Don't feel bad, you're making me a favour ;)
And now, you are upset I play that way, right? Too bad, man, it may be shocking to you, but I have same rights as you to play how I like to. Go votekick when the rng gods gave you a tank that doesn't play as you want.
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Been tanking in other games for 2 years, probably got tired of it, cuz when I tried tanking here it felt boring after some point. Can't say that it's stressful. Enjoy DPS more now.