squishy aggressive dark knights, how do i heal these guys on aoe trash pulls?

[karateorangutang]

I notice it too, but it's obvious why when you consider the tank meta shuns tankiness. From what I've read (I haven't even unlocked any tank classes yet), tanks are told to shed any signs of vit from their accessories and run pure Slaying (DPS) gear. They also like to tank in DPS stance rather than tank stance. The DPS checks in savage Alexander raiding make it a huge boon for tanks to run like this, and because other content is easier, it's trickled down in to the leveling dungeons and such. Ultimately, if a tank doesn't have the good sense switch to tank stance/pull less, just be on your toes and keep em healed.

Yes and no. This is a bigger problem than gearing though. Gearing that way highlights faults in tanking instead of hiding them. It's as simple as rotating defensive cooldowns on trash pulls.

It's not the gear, its the miseducation on what a good tank is. That's the real issue at work with any squishy tanks.

[SkyBane001]

Yes and no. This is a bigger problem than gearing though. Gearing that way highlights faults in tanking instead of hiding them. It's as simple as rotating defensive cooldowns on trash pulls.

It's not the gear, its the miseducation on what a good tank is. That's the real issue at work with any squishy tanks.

I agree, what I meant was that because people say stacking STR good, VIT bad for tanks, new tanks that don't know what their doing/don't have the skills unlocked to make this work yet go in to dungeons without the necessary health buffer to allow for mistakes. So ultimately yeah, it's an education thing exacerbated by a meta that demands every role maximize DPS.

[karateorangutang]

I agree, what I meant was that because people say stacking STR good, VIT bad for tanks, new tanks that don't know what their doing/don't have the skills unlocked to make this work yet go in to dungeons without the necessary health buffer to allow for mistakes. So ultimately yeah, it's an education thing exacerbated by a meta that demands every role maximize DPS.

Yes, absolutely. It's why alot of higher level tanks will even tell leveling tanks to level in VIT til they are comfortable with the new role.

100% agree.