Tanks That Hate Fluid Aura

[Zaels]

Holy isn't nearly as bad, but it drains a lot of mana so do not use it in extended, healing-intense fights where you will run a risk of running out of mana to heal.

Don't spam it if the fight requires a move to be stunned because enemies build stun resistance the more you stun them.

[Tiraelina]

i may not be reading this right....but are you suggesting that its okay for the healer to blast the target out of range and sleep it, then the tank to use provoke, which has a long recast, to pick it back up? the point of working as a team is to make everyones job easier. this sounds like...."oh well, the tank needs to be on his toes while i sabotage the smooth run because provoke will save us". You'll waste provoke on that unnecessary target and then what if something goes wrong and the tank needs it again? they won't have it. If my healer wants to make my job harder, they get to tank their own mob. simple as that.

Heres a fun fact I wasn't entirely sure about. Healing generates zero threat to sleeping targets. Hitting it with anything ~45 seconds later would get it back.

[Kaesara]

I Tank and Heal and to be honest it has never bothered me if both players are doing their jobs properly it should never be an issue. Yes of course if something goes wrong fluid aura isn’t going to help the tank but it’s really not a big deal the tank should just provoke and ranged pull it back.

As for holy there are plenty of dungeons where you get a chance to use it and even put out some dps as a healer you just need to do it responsibly.

[odie]

holy is fine as long as the healer can switch stance and still heal just fine. its also useful in the Aurum Vale. Holy does AoE damage and causes stun on targets it hits.

[odie]

Heres a fun fact I wasn't entirely sure about. Healing generates zero threat to sleeping targets. Hitting it with anything ~45 seconds later would get it back.

why make the tanks job harder in the first place?

[Mayh]

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[Elim]

Just tanked a level 41 dungeon with a WHM doing this. I decided to put up with it since the DPS were ranged. It was the most pointless thing ever. She'd knock them out of the DPS' AoEs(SMNs dots) and my flash then sleep it. Half the time she'd pick the target me and the DPS were on(which was marked with the #1) to knock away. Then she did it on a boss once... while I was hitting it. And no, she never got aggro once. She apologized about that one but I didn't answer her the entire time. I noticed that the BRD started to get annoyed at her, because half way through the dungeon he began to switch to her knocked away target, hit it once to break the sleep, then go back to the one I had marked to focus. All she managed to do was to slow down the DPS and force me to run around more. Next time I come across a healer who wants to waste my time in a dungeon like that, I'll save him the drama by dismissing myself from it.

[Tiraelina]

why make the tanks job harder in the first place?

CC makes dungeons easier. You only make it harder for yourself and the healer.

[Elim]

CC makes dungeons easier. You only make it harder for yourself and the healer.

If someone can't easily heal through a low level dungeon without CCs, either they're a terrible healer or the tank is GROSSLY undergeared. This is coming from someone who mains a SCH and also has a lv 50 WHM.

EDIT: And IMO Fluid Aura + sleep are two GCDs that would be better used DPSing.

[Gilthas]

It's like you play some imaginary game where pugs attack the correct marked targets 100% of the time.

This has nothing to do with what we're discussing.

CC makes dungeons easier. You only make it harder for yourself and the healer.

Yes, CC makes dungeons easier. The problem is that instead of just using Repose on a mob, you're advocating using 3 abilities (Fluid Aura + Repose + Provoke) to do a worse job than what 1 ability alone (Repose) could do.