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    Aife's Avatar
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    Aife Elke'noa
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    Excalibur
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    Arcanist Lv 80
    I've been guilty of this on more than one occasion, I have to admit.

    I think I struggle with the correct timing when the tank doesn't really provide any indication as to how many mobs they intend on plowing through before they stop to let the group catch up... I don't typically throw Regen up at the start of something, but I'll usually hit it once the first group of mobs has been pulled/flashed. More often that not though, I get tanks yelling at me if I refresh my Regen towards the end of a "group" of mobs when they intend on barreling straight into the next group. /shrug

    Either way; I always find it funny when I see these rants. I get that people can be defensive, but if you're noticing something and it's giving you enough frustration that you feel the need to hop on a message board and rant about it after the fact - You may be better served saying something to the person doing it when it happens? (Politely.)
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    My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...

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    Blue Kitty
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    Moogle
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    Conjurer Lv 84
    Quote Originally Posted by Aife View Post
    I've been guilty of this on more than one occasion, I have to admit.

    I think I struggle with the correct timing when the tank doesn't really provide any indication as to how many mobs they intend on plowing through before they stop to let the group catch up...
    If a tank knows how to aoe pull then a regen should be fine they just need to use their brain and time their flash/overpower/dkwhatsit properly. I levelled all the healers together in two level steps and very rarely did i get hate from a regen pre-pull and on the rare occasion I just went to the tank and waited patiently for them to eventually pull it off.

    Unfortunately there's just too much poor tanking in this game. Most tanks think that mass pulling is good tanking and it's everyone else that is bad when 99% of the time it's a 'hero' tank that's the issue. If there's good tanking then that leaves time for the healer to do some (optional) damage and actually make the encounter go much faster.
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