Tank Stances.

[BorisDaBlade]

Just want to throw my 2 cents in as well.....

I agree that gping full dps stance with your own healer is just fine, but in a DF setting, why put the possible strain on a healer you don't know?

Say they are already skiddish about healing and you pull the whole first floor of balesars wall. It's inevitably going to cause a wipe. There's just too much outgoing damage from all the bleeds on all four of you. Eventhough it's most likely your fault as a tank by going dps and pulling too much, the healer is probably going to think it was them.

I'll just check their gear and ask them you say? They are probably on ps4 and geared their healer through a dps job. I'm just saying. There's a time to drop tank stance, but in DF.......Probably not as much.

[FallenWings]

My 2 cents as a filthy casual, I just wanna point out that if you try to do this before your gear supports it you're going to have a bad time. It might be easy to get said gear right now, but we do have a new expansion coming up where suddenly we might not have excess mitigation for a while. We might have new or returning players coming in deciding what class to play and all they hear is "DPS, DPS, DPS!" even for the tank roles. They need to know the basics and actually possess the excess mitigation before making that trade is a wise decision.

Tank stance is only ever relevant for Tank Busters and/or aggro management against over-geared teammates.

Even when new content is released, nothing ever threatens you outside of tank busters to warrant the usage of Tank Stance. This is especially true for when new content is released since everyone else should be of equivalent gear level, so you don't need the extra enmity provided.

If you don't know the fight and don't know if there will be extreme spikes of damage, then go ahead and use it for the first few pulls. But it is ultimately training wheels for when you can understand the damage and then you will then properly utilize your cooldowns. Learn to drop it.

Learn to optimize.

Just want to throw my 2 cents in as well.....

I agree that gping full dps stance with your own healer is just fine, but in a DF setting, why put the possible strain on a healer you don't know?

Say they are already skiddish about healing and you pull the whole first floor of balesars wall. It's inevitably going to cause a wipe. There's just too much outgoing damage from all the bleeds on all four of you. Eventhough it's most likely your fault as a tank by going dps and pulling too much, the healer is probably going to think it was them.

I'll just check their gear and ask them you say? They are probably on ps4 and geared their healer through a dps job. I'm just saying. There's a time to drop tank stance, but in DF.......Probably not as much.

The name of the game in pugging is adapting.

Being flexible and being able to adapt is the mark of a good player. This goes both ways in defense and offense.

However, making too many concessions will ultimately hurt the said skiddish healer in the long term. You need to show them what they will expect to heal if they ever wish to get better rather than babying them constantly. We've seen what the lack of feedback of DPS has done for the quality of the playerbase. That is my personal philosophy anyways and you can do whatever you please.

But stagnation is what it means if you only play one way and refuse to change to the climate of the meta.