How do you deal with sluggish tanks?

Vote kicked for Harassment because they aren't moving at a pace you like? That's a bit extreme and a good way to get yourself reported. There's no harassment on there unless the tank is sitting there rubbing it in your face.

Still don't understand the lack of patience these days.

You are harrassing people by being a noob and pulling at the speed of a snail, if anyone can be reported it's the tank ruining everyone elses time, not the other way around.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't know what's their problem. like 80% of the tanks I met are super slow and keep wasting time before each pull, then waste another minute standing infront of the boss. sometimes 3 minutes if it's the last boss. always waste time until my buffs disappear.

these slow paced tanks are so annoying. and the ready check is annoying too.

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As a Ninja you don't have buffs that you activate pre-pull that can just "disapper". If you have, you're playing the job wrong.

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Originally Posted by Adventica6

You are harrassing people by being a noob and pulling at the speed of a snail, if anyone can be reported it's the tank ruining everyone elses time, not the other way around.

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Wow... That is attitude is just... Wow. Apparently being new at something and taking your time is now a form of harassment. Let me guess, you believe a new employee at a job who isn't moving at full speed is harassing the other employees, too? I will never understand the utter lack of patience and understanding from a lot of gamers. It's like a bunch of children throwing temper tantrums. I honestly pity people like that. Everyone was new once and everyone had to learn. Why people can't understand that is beyond me. Complete lack of empathy.

And for the most part (there's always exceptions), if someone is moving slower it isn't because they're trying to be malicious. It's what they're comfortable with.

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Originally Posted by Adventica6

You are harrassing people by being a noob and pulling at the speed of a snail, if anyone can be reported it's the tank ruining everyone elses time, not the other way around.

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I mean that's not harassment, that's a player playing the game at the speed they are comfortable with. Tanks are already in short supply, so especially when a tank is new to a dungeon or whatever, it's best to let them get the hang of things or we will have even fewer tanks. No tank pulls slowly forever unless the other players are harassing them, which happens quite frequently. Decent tanks and healers get harassed constantly in every game I have ever played for every little thing, and it's completely unnecessary. So your AT stacks, Enochian, GL3 fell off. Big deal, you can handle it. It'll come back. And this is coming from someone who's basically a career DPS in this game.

Meh, you get a few bad eggs. I know i've been vote kicked for not pulling large groups when i felt that the group couldn't handle it ( I always do the first small group to gauge DPS and healing ability before doing large pulls). If that happens you can simply re-queue, it's not like we have a long queue when entering it on tank.

Bad attitudes happen and if they wanna wait 10-15 minutes for another tank and slow down their entire run then hats off to them.

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Originally Posted by karateorangutang

I always do the first small group to gauge DPS and healing ability before doing large pulls.

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Yeah same. Always do a quick test along with checking both the healers and the dps gear to see what they could be potentially do during the pulls. If the DPS think your going slow, then they can tell you and you can pick the pace up.

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Originally Posted by Adventica6

You are harrassing people by being a noob and pulling at the speed of a snail, if anyone can be reported it's the tank ruining everyone elses time, not the other way around.

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If the tank is a noob to that dungeon, entirely possible their gear isn't high enough lvl to pull multiple groups of mobs. Also how the hell is it harassment? If you want to go down that road, you could then say that the players who bring bad dps to the dungeon are harassing as well. Can guarantee that will go down absolutely brilliantly/s

As a tank, I just ask the group at the start of a dungeon how fast they want to go. I haven't had any complaints, at least not on speed of completion, when everyone agrees on a pace before I start pulling.

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Originally Posted by Ryaz

Wow... That is attitude is just... Wow. Apparently being new at something and taking your time is now a form of harassment.

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I don't agree with the harassment part but first of all people know when someone is new to a dungeon. That said even being new isn't really an excuse, the only thing of note is boss tactics which a tank would be asking about and would be known why there is waiting. For trash though, by the time people are in 50+ dungeons, and especially ex roulette there's no need to not go from pack to pack at a steady pace. The bosses in both those dungeons are a joke do we really need full mp/tp stoneskin, all cooldowns and ready check? no. It really does such watching aethertrail count down because the tank can't manage to pull the next pack that's 5 feet away in 30 seconds.