Take it easy, Tanks.

[Galaktica]

Honestly? My biggest problem?

Just let me regen some f***ing mana. Jesus Christ.

I cannot count the number of times this expansion a tank pulls when I'm at like 20% mana and I'm running on fumes trying to keep the world's squishiest tank alive while the dps seem hellbent on trying to kill themselves all while I'm also trying to contribute some damage as well. Is it really so much to ask that you take your eyes of yourself for like two seconds just to look around your screen. glance at your healer's MP, and say "hey, my healer is out of mana. Maybe I should take it slower for a sec? Maybe I should ask them if it's okay?"

Some of you "geniuses" can't even even be bothered to wait for new players. In the past week alone, I could rattle off a number of examples where the tank pulled while one or more new players were watching the cutscene before the last boss. Like...wtf? How far up your own ass do you have to be that you can't even give someone 30 seconds to take in the whole experience on their first run.

Tanking is my least favorite role, but I've started doing it more just because of how much I detest so many of the people tanking.

[Taika]

Honestly? My biggest problem?

Just let me regen some f***ing mana. Jesus Christ.

Which healer are you playing? I have literally not once had to have my party wait for my MP in any SB content on AST or WHM despite DPSing on every pull. I sometimes run out or low if I get overenthusiastic with Gravity / Holy or the pull is very difficult to heal and I have to use all my resources, but then I just tone it down a bit at the beginning of next pull.

[Galaktica]

Which healer are you playing?

When you have a tank that doesn't like to use CDs, DPS who keep getting hit, or DPS who take forever to kill anything. It's not hard to run low. All of them together? That's super fun. Throw in a rez or two because everyone wants to stand where they shouldn't? Ooooooh boy, I'm in heaven. -_-

I'm glad your experience has been as nightmarish as mine though. That's cool.

[Maeka]

Honestly? My biggest problem?

Just let me regen some f***ing mana. Jesus Christ.

Well, they can't do THAT, because they want to get through the dungeon ASAP! If they pull as many groups as possible, they might shave 30-45 seconds off the whole run... oh wait, they gotta wait for mana after the pull, nullifying any time they could have saved, lol.

Don't you just love that mentality? "WE CAN AoE BURN THESE DOWN FAST!" ... after the pull... the healer goes "OOM, need mana." and they spend more time than they gained by multipulling waiting on the healer's MP.

And yes, to answer that other person's question about healer Mana, I play WHM and I have had tanks run me down to 20% or less and that was after Lucid. I have had tanks that required endless Cure2s which blows through mana like nobody's business. Cure 1s won't cut it, and other than Benediction and Tetragammaton (which are one-off things), there's really nothing else I can use (well, ok, Assize too but that's a drop in the bucket and I usually save that in case a DPS also takes a hit since I sure as heck don't have time to give anybody else a heal).

The tank literally goes from 60% down to 30% back up to 60% down to 30% about as fast as I can cast Cure2 when they do this. I can only hope and pray that one of my Cure2s crits so I can at least throw a Regen on there to start building a bit of a buffer, OR, the DPS can knock off a couple mobs to lessen the strain.

It simply isn't worth the extra hassle, you don't really gain that much extra time, UNLESS everybody is Item/Level Sync'd. Then, yes, ok, you can do multiple pulls. The healer's heals will heal for more per heal, the tank will take less damage and have a larger HP pool, and the DPS can burn the mobs down a lot faster.

RE:AxiomPITCH: So basically, what you're saying, is to never talk about the problem, never try to educate people as to why they shouldn't be mass-pulling in bad situations, etc? That seems less-than-productive. SOME people already knew what I posted, but it was my hope that maybe somebody who just mass pulls because everybody yells at them to (and not because they want to/think it is the right time to) might happen upon this thread, see my post and might learn a few things. If you already know this stuff, then fine. Move along. But don't stifle the conversation needlessly.