Kind of a minor rant about tanks that refuse to adapt to their parties abilities/learn any new strategies/whatever...

I don't get people who don't know how to take criticism and/or don't have at least a basic understanding of the mechanics of other classes. My first love is the Paladin, but since the group I play with most is an FC of a handful of mostly casual players (friends from work, friends of friends, etc.), I learn most of the content through guides and DFs. I've always been open to criticism/suggestions when they are productive, and generally avoid playing the blame game when a party lacks the DPS or heals even when they start blaming the tanks for everything.

Occasionally I'll wind up in a PUG with a level 50 paladin/warrior when I'm in a LL DF with another class, and they'll be doing something stupid like pulling with shield lob followed by provoke, or they won't use enough flash/OP in a dungeon to keep hate, won't cycle their combos, and won't mark targets, but then blame DDs for getting hate just because the DD had the audacity to assume that the warrior was going to maintain emnity on the first target they pulled.

I figured that kind of thing would go away when I got to level 50 dungeons, but I wound up doing AK as a i60ish WHM to work towards my relic after not playing the class for a month or so. I was super rusty, and was having trouble keeping up. The guy kept doing these huge pulls without giving me any time to regain MP between them, we wiped twice on trash pulls, and when I suggested that maybe we should slow down, he said something to the effect of "I haven't had to do small pulls on AK in months, you must be new to the game." and then kept doing the same thing he was doing. The first wipe was my fault, and I was kind of snarky/stressed out when I asked him to slow down, but still, what kind of attitude is that to have?

I love doing huge pulls as a paladin, and early on when I started gearing up I caused wipes on more than one occasion by over-estimating the DPS/healing output or whatever, so I get that it happens. But who in their right mind would think "Well, I know I can handle this, so why should I slow down just to accommodate some noobs who don't know how to heal?"