Do tanks always rush?

[Zedd702]

A lot DPS and Healers have it in their in mind that Tank's are tools.
We're not, sometimes, when we want to run dungeons, we want to do it for fun.
I won't rush a dungeon unless it's a pre-made group with my FC.
Sadly, in my case, DPS and Healer's don't realize that they joined a PUG, if DDers or Healers choose to run ahead and pull packs in the hopes of me doing a speed run, I laugh, finish my mobs, and then watch them die. If I get kicked, I select 'Join in Progress', return to the dungeon and people shut up and do their jobs right, if they don't like it, they can go ahead 'dc' and enjoy another 1 hour wait (DPS) or suck it up (Healer).

As tank, you control the pace of the dungeon, DD controls the speed of how the enemies fall and healer is well healer. I would do the exact same thing as you would in your above example. I am the meatshield. i tell you what I can handle, even if I can handle them, sometimes I don't want large pulls. That's my call as tank. If you're getting hate from something I pulled then you have every right to say something to me, but if I am the one expecting to hold the hate: Don't. You. DARE. Pull extra mobs to me on purpose. I will pull up a lawn chair and watch as the adds destroy you.

^ This right here. I do not mind playing with a tank who can pull everything in one pull or one who needs to do them one at a time. To each his own, I just adapt as the healer and go from there, I will buff as we are running or just start casting Stoneskin when the last mob is about 10% you will finish the cast around the time it dies and boom you have buffs and tank can pull to his heart content.

Gamers whine about anything and everything, the tank pulls too slow, he pulls to fast, he has too much welfare gear, he doesn't have the warfare gear what a scrub. Less QQ moar pew pew.

Except that's not the case. It's not about whining or adapting. You get a tank that bitches at you because they died with their horrible gear on top of the fact THEY did not wait for buffs. That is the tanks fault, not the healer. I semi agree with the person you quoted, but the majority are just bad...NO TERRIBAD tanks.

My proposal: wait for your buffs, test what the team can handle and proceed and control the pace that suits your team as a REAL tank should.