Dear Ranged Dps

[ShaneDawn]

Give about 5 to 10 seconds at the start of the fight for the tank to gain hate then start dps.

Tanks get exactly 0,01s and then it's go time. 8)

On a more serious note: I have barely ever seen a ranged do the actual pulling. What I have seen are ranged tagging mobs between pulls, but consider this: a Bard in particular wants to single dot several adds during pull and double dot the biggest one before transitioning into spamming AoEs. As long as the tank manages to tag all mobs at least once, aggro should not be an issue and the pack of adds will [b]a lot[\b] faster when the tank stops and the aoe nuke ensues.

Good tanks actually take the forementioned fact into account and make sure that everything gets properly tagged when pulling.

[SaitoHikari]

Tanks get exactly 0,01s and then it's go time. 8)

On a more serious note: I have barely ever seen a ranged do the actual pulling. What I have seen are ranged tagging mobs between pulls, but consider this: a Bard in particular wants to single dot several adds during pull and double dot the biggest one before transitioning into spamming AoEs. As long as the tank manages to tag all mobs at least once, aggro should not be an issue and the pack of adds will [b]a lot[\b] faster when the tank stops and the aoe nuke ensues.

Good tanks actually take the forementioned fact into account and make sure that everything gets properly tagged when pulling.

This. Bard AoE potential drops like a rock the less mobs there actually are around to DoT. A bit ironic, that.

Then again, not many bards even know how to abuse that concept, so I don't blame tanks for not being aware of this.