Take it easy, Tanks.

[Tridus]

1. I pull as little as possible to see if the healer becomes compelled to ask to pull bigger.

2. If they ask nice, I'll comply. If they are dicks about it, I continue with my current pace.

If a DPS opens their mouths, they don't exist.

Amusingly, I'd never say anything in that case. You're comfortable single pulling? Cool. It pretty much guarantees a smooth run and I'm going to blast the hell out of stuff.

It's when people big pull while in Shire gear in Doma Castle and I can't do anything except use every GCD on Cure 2 without them dying that I get frustrated.

[Spiriel_Basanda]

They are not, however, fun because of the playerbase whining at us. I enjoy tanking. I enjoy my job's abilities and buttons. I enjoy the role itself and what it entails. I don't, however, enjoy people complaining when my pacing isn't to their liking.

I always have fun while I am tanking but it just takes one person to whine and complain about if I pull to much or pull to little even if it is just the first pull and I am trying to get a feel for the healer and dps. Then come to the forums and complain about it. Even when I am doing my job right by holding threat and not taking to much damage I still get people complaining I am not in my tank stance.

This is why I don't say a thing outside of actual conversation or telling new people boss mechanics when I'm in a group while I'm playing a DD job. I've healed, I've tanked(in WoW at least, trying to level a tank in this, though I'm admittedly a little bit.....let's say worried about getting the "Going to slow!" thing as a tank while I'm learning how to do the role in this), and I know it's rough.

There's no reason to hassle the people that are willing to do the jobs most of the people playing an MMO don't want to do, if you were to ask me. As long as we aren't wiping over and over, you do you, it doesn't bother me. <3 to the healers and the tanks.

[MoroMurasaki]

Amusingly, I'd never say anything in that case. You're comfortable single pulling? Cool. It pretty much guarantees a smooth run and I'm going to blast the hell out of stuff.

It's when people big pull while in Shire gear in Doma Castle and I can't do anything except use every GCD on Cure 2 without them dying that I get frustrated.

You seem to always have such quotable, likable posts. This is (again) very much the exact way I feel, I'm almost compelled to change my signature...

[Tridus]

You seem to always have such quotable, likable posts. This is (again) very much the exact way I feel, I'm almost compelled to change my signature...

<3 Thanks!

[Maeka]

Amusingly, I'd never say anything in that case. You're comfortable single pulling? Cool. It pretty much guarantees a smooth run and I'm going to blast the hell out of stuff.

It's when people big pull while in Shire gear in Doma Castle and I can't do anything except use every GCD on Cure 2 without them dying that I get frustrated.

This is exactly how I feel too. Single pulls, I can throw lots of DPS spells, and my play experience is more enjoyable.

However, I have had *good* tanks multipulling.. still mildly stressful but nowhere near as bad as undergeared people doing it. I met this 49k Paladin today... Kugane Castle. He multi-pulled every multi-pull possible in the zone, but he used his cooldowns, and all that jazz. It was somewhat hectic, but comfortable still. We also had a pair of rather good DPS who were actually capable of killing the junk in some reasonable time-frame. I was able to squeek out a few Aero 3s, even a Stone IV now and then, though admittedly I was more focused on healing the tank, almost lost him once but nobody died. It was a good run.

But for every run like that, there's 10 where I am doing nothing but Cure2 and/or Tetra/Assize/Lucid the whole dungeon and those are just not fun for the healer. Yeah, sure the tank and DPS are having a ball blowing stuff up but the healer? It isn't fun whatsoever. I have more than 4 buttons. I would appreciate the chance to use them, kthx.