Surrounded - a Tank question

[_slowpoke_]

There is also a 90 degree area where the circle doesn't appear, this is known as being hit in the bad place

Wow, never noticed that before. Nice little UI detail.

[Seku]

Thank you.

This doesn't seem to be common knowledge, I have such situations in almost every run I do - tank surrounded by mobs, which reduces me to heal bombing with no chance to speed up the run.

Sounds like you're getting horrible tanks that don't know how to use/time their Cool downs or are under geared. The lack of parry and block shouldn't pull you down to cure bombing as a tank should be basing their damage reduction outside of both due to the RNG factor. But none the less all mobs should be facing the tank and away from the group at all times.

. If you have ranged DPS, it's usually no big deal to dance around a bit and try to get them to line up again, but when you have melee DPS with positionals, you also don't want to ruin their damage potential ;

If you're doing large pulls, which is the only time I've experienced mobs trying to adjust themselves, Melee dps should always be AoEing in current Roulette dungeons anything else is a dps lost and their messing up their own damage potential.

[Noxifer]

If you're doing large pulls, which is the only time I've experienced mobs trying to adjust themselves, Melee dps should always be AoEing in current Roulette dungeons anything else is a dps lost and their messing up their own damage potential.

I see that you conveniently didn't quote the part of my post where I gave examples of when:

(for buffs or because there are other reasons to not do AoE damage skills, like in lower level dungeons where they don't really have those yet).

^_~

But yes, the higher in level you go, and certainly at 50+, AoE attacks should be the primary use in larger pulls. I don't play melee classes that much myself, so I don't really know the numbers on skill potency and how many mobs need to be in the group to make it a gain instead of a loss (my 'pet' BLM said at some point that the number of mobs needed to not lose DPS by using AoE has gone up slightly with HW and later patches, but that's for BLM and not melee, so... *shrugs*). I'm just saying that this doesn't always happen. For Reasons. =)

[Twilite]

Won't work if they are directly at their flanks and behind them.

[Noxifer]

Won't work if they are directly at their flanks and behind them.

It would probably help if you say something about whom you're responding to O.o What won't work if who's at whose flanks/butt?