PSA: Taunt

[Rymia]

However, as a healer, if you pull hate via heals, it's the tanks fault, no exceptions

If i spam Medica II on Titan i'll pull hate before/on the first jump through no fault of the tank.

Regen ticks will pull the two mobs the tank didn't Shield lob on the pull, spamming cure II three seconds into the fight could pull it to.

It's not always the tanks fault if the healers not paying attention

[Livilda]

Regen ticks will pull the two mobs the tank didn't Shield lob on the pull, spamming cure II three seconds into the fight could pull it to.

Had this happen quite a few times in The Stone Vigil. Not fun.

And to be honest, I think I'm a pretty good tank. I'm not talking about simply losing aggro through negligence; I do pay attention and hold threat on all targets needed as best I can - especially to keep threat off healers, but I pay attention to DPS' aggro too. What I'm griping about is DPS who attack out of order or unload everything they've got 3 milliseconds into the fight and then expect me to be able to keep things from killing them.

[Jayrune]

If i spam Medica II on Titan i'll pull hate before/on the first jump through no fault of the tank.

Regen ticks will pull the two mobs the tank didn't Shield lob on the pull, spamming cure II three seconds into the fight could pull it to.

It's not always the tanks fault if the healers not paying attention

Fair enough, I'll concede the Medica II outright, though I would hope a healer would not do that deliberately to troll.

The two mobs pulled via regen ticks is a fair point, I deal with that by positioning my flash to intercept them en-route to the healer (provided the healer is relatively behind me). But that's a gamble and takes very good timing so i can't claim every tank should be able to do this, and I'm not sure if War/Mar can do that with an overpower or not so I'll concede that as well.


The meaning i intended by my first post is that if a Dps pulls hate on a mob, your focus as the tank should be to make sure you have a hold on the other mobs rather than try to fight the Dps for that one mob, let them have it. The Dps will have higher hate than the healer and if the healer is trying to keep the Dps alive then you need to focus your threat gen evenly enough on the mobs to make sure they don't go after the healer. If the mob kills the dps cause the healer wanted to teach them not to pull hate then all you have to make sure of is that you are still in front of the healer in the threat table.