Anyone Else Find Sprint No Longer Using TP Making Tanks Even Worse?

[Evumeimei]

If from the start of the dungeon the tank is speeding off, then you probably don't have time to stop and type. Swiftcast Eos and follow them as soon as they start moving.

I absolutely love it when tanks properly use sprint, and great tanks will always remember SCH's like to prebuff with Aldo and Excog before they sprint off to aggro the mobs.

As SCH pre-Stormblood I was already timing my Adlo for the next pull to be applied just as the last mob from previous trash is dying. That way there is no downtime.

Regardless, there are ways to adjust to a sprint-happy tank. I was surprised when I had one for my first ever level 70 dungeon (as WHM). Panicked a bit, if I'm honest, but managed to keep up just fine.

[Sunspawn]

As SCH pre-Stormblood I was already timing my Adlo for the next pull to be applied just as the last mob from previous trash is dying. That way there is no downtime.

The problem is when tanks speed off while the last mob is on 20% or so. It happens more often than I'd like to see when playing melee dps.

[Thoro39]

The problem is when tanks speed off while the last mob is on 20% or so. It happens more often than I'd like to see when playing melee dps.

I play relatively a lot and have a lot of classes at 70. The amounts of times I have seen a tank do this in my 3 years of playing, I could count them on one hand.

[Anienai]

The problem is when tanks speed off while the last mob is on 20% or so. It happens more often than I'd like to see when playing melee dps.

I'm guilty of this...

[TaleraRistain]

The problem is when tanks speed off while the last mob is on 20% or so. It happens more often than I'd like to see when playing melee dps.

OMG this. Then they drag the damned thing along with them rather than letting us finish it off and start a new pull.

[Ftail]

If from the start of the dungeon the tank is speeding off, then you probably don't have time to stop and type. Swiftcast Eos and follow them as soon as they start moving.

I don't need to stop to type with a macro? If I swift summon my EOS, that means I'll have to hard cast Protect. My Protect is macro'd meaning every time I use Protect my words always play in party chat.

protect macro that says, "Casting Protect, Please don't sprint off yet".

Tanks don't run off without waiting for buffs out of malice, people can be forgetful, and saying "Please" can go a long way. In fact, I've seen a noticeable difference ever since I started using it.

[Tridus]

I don't need to stop to type with a macro? If I swift summon my EOS, that means I'll have to hard cast Protect. My Protect is macro'd meaning every time I use Protect my words always play in party chat.

Tanks don't run off without waiting for buffs out of malice, people can be forgetful, and saying "Please" can go a long way. In fact, I've seen a noticeable difference ever since I started using it.

I had the same result. Macroed in "Casting Protect, please stay close! " Had a tank run off, see that, and run *back* to be in the cast. A little bit of polite communication goes a long way.

[Yuyuka3]

It definitely empowers terrible tanks to be even worse.

I had the same result. Macroed in "Casting Protect, please stay close! " Had a tank run off, see that, and run *back* to be in the cast. A little bit of polite communication goes a long way.

90% of healers buff Protect at the beginning of a dungeon, it's a well-known fact by now. It's awful behaviour to just sprint away as soon as the barrier falls, but there are so many idiots like that around lately it's not even funny.

[Lambdafish]

90% of healers buff Protect at the beginning of a dungeon, it's a well-known fact by now. It's awful behaviour to just sprint away as soon as the barrier falls, but there are so many idiots like that around lately it's not even funny.

I think you are being a little bit bitter. As a tank, I will attest to having runs where I will absent mindedly start going at the beginning only to see the healer cast protect and think "Oh yeah, I forgot about protect". What is awful behavior is treating tanks like they are all arrogant and don't listen, it doesn't do well for the tank-healer relationship. As Tridus said, a little bit of polite communication goes a long way, no matter who you are.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I had the same result. Macroed in "Casting Protect, please stay close! " Had a tank run off, see that, and run *back* to be in the cast. A little bit of polite communication goes a long way.

I... I think I may have been that tank? I remember macro like that! Although, that was more a "Right! Forgot she hadn't cast Protect yet"