Dear Paladins: please don't "Cover" dark knights

[Shurrikhan]

They just want to feel useful when they're off tanking.

Here, you tank the healers, I'll tank the boss (through you).

:: Somehow those two things work better paired together...

[Hierro]

I've had this happen a couple of times, and it's really, really annoying:

I'm main-tanking in Trial Roulette or something, and the off-tank is a paladin. Usually, this means the paladin will be wearing significantly worse gear than I am, or I OT and DPS.

Nonetheless, during the fight, a little light tether to the PLD will appear, and I get an unremovable buff: "Covered".

This is, as a dark knight, extremely annoying. Not just because it's over-working the healers if the paladin's gear isn't that great, but also because at various points getting hit is where I get my MP from.

Can you all just... not? Unless there's an actual, genuine reason to, which, in Trial Roulette, there absolutely definitely isn't.

I'm sick of your comma splices

[LilLemay]

Is it really extra when it comes at the cost of the Dark Knight's MP, Reprisal, and Low Blows?

yes, yes it is

[EusisLandale]

yes, yes it is

Can you elaborate?

[LilLemay]

Can you elaborate?

Cause sometimes it's just amusing to mess with people, and because honestly if there's a DRK and a PLD in a party the chances that you're doing savage content with that tank comp is slim. Which would mean you're probably doing regular alexander or ex primals; in which case it doesn't really matter anyway.

[Jpec07]

There are rare exceptions when it is generally acceptable, but the golden rule of group content plays very strongly here:

Communication will make you win.

It works in FPS games, it works in MOBAs, and it certainly works in MMOs. Want to know when to cover the DRK? Ask her about it before the fight starts, and whether she wants you to help her cheese certain mechanics. Worst case scenario is that she says no, but you will have earned respect for (1) knowing the fight and (2) actively seeking to coordinate with your teammates.

[The_NPC]

If u'r about to die to a Tank buster cause u have several vuln stacks or u can't/didn't use u'r "oh shit" button u'r getting a cover MT, thou I'd personally use have liked to use it on a healer in same senario (personally almost never use it, sometimes even forget its there like divine veil due to its moderate CD length & niche use, but as its right becide Hallowed & Provoke for me I made it harder to forget then I could have)

Unless there is a definitive "Mechanic" or "Senario" that demands Cover be used I'll never use it, especially "just" to proc Sheild swipe as OT cause I may need it soon

[Brannigan]

I will cover who I want when I want. If you don't like it then go whine on the forums about it.

Wait

[Galborion]

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I agree with you OP, but I am afraid you are beating a dead horse here. Its the same as asking WHM not to use holy during your blood price.

[RopeDrink]

Aware this discussion is over but I've actually done this a few times - but only if the tank gets chunked down to super low HP and I feel the Healers aren't pre-emptively healing or reacting as soon as possible to the damage. I won't feel bad covering any tank in this scenario as MP is the last of your concerns if you're a hit from death, but I certainly don't waste the CD on randomly covering without reason just because, hey, I can take the damage, let me be helpful hurmagurd!