Tanking Frustration: I blame WoW

[Trihuuger]

The problem, also, is that there are far too many terrible tanks and DPS assume they're going to be tanking regardless. BLM and BRD probably have to deal with that the most. I rarely find a tank competent enough to hold hate over me simply spreading my DoT's to speed up the EXTREMELY boring AK trash. 9/10 I end up with 2/3 mobs on me after typically waiting til the first mob is 50%ish to Bane (spreads Bio, Bio II, and Miasma to everything within 5 yds). I'll say it straight, if you can't hold agro over summoner DoT's you need to go back to Hello Kitty Island Adventure. That game is much more of your "level."

All in all, while you may be having problems on one end, I find most tanks to be window licking, paint chip eating retards and THAT is far worse than trigger happy DPS.

I've tanked for over 10 years now, and truthfully wanted a break. I am sorry I chose to do so here. Tanked WoW from vanilla up through the end of Cata, Rift from the beginning of Rogues actually being viable (pretty much the easiest game to tank in yet), and Tera until I crunched the numbers on just how grindy that game was after a few months of being max level.

[Resolute]

All in all, while you may be having problems on one end, I find most tanks to be window licking, paint chip eating retards and THAT is far worse than trigger happy DPS.

I've tanked for over 10 years now, and truthfully wanted a break. I am sorry I chose to do so here. Tanked WoW from vanilla up through the end of Cata, Rift from the beginning of Rogues actually being viable (pretty much the easiest game to tank in yet), and Tera until I crunched the numbers on just how grindy that game was after a few months of being max level.

Yeah, I tanked in WoW for years and thought I would make pugilist my main for this game. But I found that I couldn't stand giving up the control of the battles that tanking provides, especially when I see other people doing it badly.

[Runalong]

[QUOTE=Resolute;1340103]Yeah, I tanked in WoW for years and thought I would make pugilist my main for this game. But I found that I couldn't stand giving up the control of the battles that tanking provides, especially when I see other people doing it badly.
This is more of less why I tank. I started off healing in Vanilla WoW on my druid but ended up tanking (Yes feral druids could tank in Vanilla despite the hate) because I got tired of the bad tanks.

There have always been bad DPS since Vanillla WoW but instances certainly got dumbed down over the years to the point where it was just AoE tanking and AoE nuking throughout. I always preferred 5-mans to raids but 5-mans, even on heroic, became a joke.

Class skills like hunter kiting and suchlike became things of the past that only veteran players had heard of, let alone were able to do.