Entitled DPS, please stop being entitled

[Adire]

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Another fine example of the forums being welcoming.

Few people (perhaps no one?) has attempted to claim that that is a question rather than a demand. "no skipping anything" is a demand. Following suit by immediately pulling mobs upon suspicion that I was not going listen to the demand reinforces the fact that it was intended to be used in a demanding manner, as does the response to my request that the DPS AoE.

My post was not a tantrum, so much as a story that I wanted to share with people, and a request that people do not behave in the way that this person did towards people they want a favor from. I do not understand why people insist on insulting my character by using my OP when I did not insult anyone's character in particular.

I suppose people will see what they want to see though, right? Asking people to treat others with a little respect is asking too much I suppose. The responses here attest to that. Respond to a story and very general request by insulting my character, amongst other things.

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I think you're getting the wrong idea about me/my post. I never, ever, ever pull more than I think the healer can handle. If I die because it's more than the healer can handle, I do not fuss. I take the blame willingly and admit I made an idiot choice. I suppose I should have clarified that in that post, though I did not have the benefit of hindsight at the time. I always take the healer into account when I pull. I was just saying with that post that is the tank who actually is supposed to DO the act of pulling. Therefore, it's my belief that the act of pulling is most within the realm of the tank's job. If the tank dies because they pull too much or make the healer uncomfortable, then it's their fault as well in that situation. But it's still the job of the tank to pull, and at the same time the job of the tank to take the blame if they pull too much. The tank doesn't have to listen to the healer when they pull, but they'll end up dead or stressing them out beyond necessary. Consequences and whatnot.

This situation was unique as well in that DD offers a way to easily do larger pulls without taking a considerable amount of damage.

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Yeah, I do not stand by my title of my thread at this point and would love to change it if I could. I had assumed people would understand my context that this situation is why I posted and why I referred to DPS specifically, I didn't think everyone would think I had a vendetta against DPS and believe in tanks being the literal master race, and I apologize for that. Hard to understand context online sometimes.

I have since edited my OP to be more generalizing of roles though. People who read the OP should know that the title no longer reflects the post. If they read the title and jump on the "the op sucks and hates dps" bandwagon without bothering to read and attempt understand the OP at this point though, that's their own fault for choosing to be ignorant. Because I've said time and time again that tanks don't get exclusion from having to be decent people.