Quote Originally Posted by ClaireAbigail View Post
No, the whole "x can decide" needs to go. No one should be dictating how the party goes. Everyone should have a say on how the dungeons should go. Not the tank or the healer or the dps but everyone.

And for that, if you can't reach middle ground, leave the party and re que. You're a tank you should get back in in an instant, that would teach the dps. Instead you played the victim card and cried in the forums and the "entitled" dps. Seriously, how do you think the community here would react? Especially with a title like that.
Leaving will give you a 30 minute lockout and the party isn't going to boot you unless you act like an even bigger child by refusing to do anything at all, or being purposely insulting. I agree with the OP. I feel he handled the situation correctly and was not acting entitled when he did so. No, the tank is not the end-all decision maker. But in this case where the rest of the group can't make up their minds, the tank is the tiebreaker. Someone has to be. If the tank doesn't have a preference, pretend you didn't cast your vote, then there won't be a tie!

When I'm DPSing, I go with what the tank wants to do. If I don't like what they're doing, I bring it to their attention. If they don't stop, there's really nothing I can do about it. When I'm the tank, I take everyone's preferences into consideration and try to please the most people I can (2 out of 3 ain't bad). So no. It's not all up to the tank. But the tank is definitely the de-facto leader in the case of deadlocks.