How do you deal with sluggish tanks?

[Chiramu]

Usually tanks who wait for a pull are waiting for something quite tangible, like healer MP, someone to catch up or watch their cutscene, or perhaps a personal CD (Fight or Flight or Berserk perhaps) about to come off cooldown so they'll have more damage/aggro.

There are definitely slowpokes out there but in endgame I usually find they have a reason for delays.

Healer MP is a problem that the healer has to work for, as a WHM main myself I strive to make sure I have the required MP for boss fights after big trash pulls. A tank does not have to hold up the group for me, it is the healers' responsibility and it is a part of learning how to be a better healer to manage your own MP.

[Velox]

Healer MP is a problem that the healer has to work for, as a WHM main myself I strive to make sure I have the required MP for boss fights after big trash pulls. A tank does not have to hold up the group for me, it is the healers' responsibility and it is a part of learning how to be a better healer to manage your own MP.

That only applies to situations within reason though. Many tanks insist on chain-pulling to maximize instance completion speed. However, because chain-pulling means that there's always at least 1 enemy in combat, the out-of-combat MP regeneration will never apply (and in-combat MP regeneration is abysmal). What this means is that chain-pulling is actually more detrimental to instance completion speed (more-so for AST and WHM since SCH is an MP battery) because less MP can go towards DPS. Then there's also the situation when the DDs are taking a little too long to kill enemies (which is more common in 3.0 than in 2.0 since enemy HP pools in 3.0 are 2-3x higher per level) which can also lead to MP strain before the next pull (enemies in 3.0 also hit 2-3x harder than their 2.0 counterparts per level). Basically, there's a lot more to worry about in 3.0 than in 2.0 when it comes to running dungeons since SE decided to change a lot of things up to increase difficulty. Tanks, healers, and DDs need to understand this first before bum-rushing a level 51+ dungeon.