Discussion on tanking

[Aana]

Two sides of the coin. If DPS are pulling in front of you once in a blue moon, whatever. It happens. If they do it once no biggie. If they keep doing it ask them to stop. If they dont, they can enjoy the floor.

However, if this situation happens to you on a regular basis, then you might need to consider a look in the mirror. Are you are just moving excessively slowly? Blowing your entire CD suite for a lame set of trash mobs then waiting for them before pulling?

If DPS seem to ALWAYS be pulling then you are probably just being really, really slow. If it happens once in a blue moon, then you are fine and just got a randomly impatient player. Just make sure you arent the one holding the group up.

[TouchandFeel]

If DPS seem to ALWAYS be pulling then you are probably just being really, really slow ... Just make sure you arent the one holding the group up.

To expand on this, I have ended up in DF groups with tanks that would literally just stop and wait upwards of 10 to 15 seconds before pulling every single individual group of mobs. I have had tanks that do this and spend the wait time slowly marking every single mob in the group first. I've even had tanks that sit and wait AND then do a countdown or ready check before going ... for ... every ... single ... pull.

While I didn't jump ahead and start pulling, I definitely let them know that they could just pull and that what they were doing was excessive and greatly slowing down the run.
While some where receptive, many were extremely stubborn and convinced they knew what they were doing and that it was fine.

Please, please, please don't be one of those tanks.

[Driskus]

To expand on this, I have ended up in DF groups with tanks that would literally just stop and wait upwards of 10 to 15 seconds before pulling every single individual group of mobs. I have had tanks that do this and spend the wait time slowly marking every single mob in the group first.

This is one of the biggest ones that get me. I don't mind if its a low level dungeon where the DPS might not have AoE yet, or where the tank doesn't have their stance. I will usually just DoT everything and if I end up tanking as the healer, oh well, the mobs do basically zero damage anyway. In high level dungeons where everybody has AoE and tank stances are a thing, it doesn't make sense at all to single target everything. If I see it in a higher level dungeon (50+), I'll usually throw out some Holy spam to see if they get the hint once their enemy list goes all green/yellow instead of all red. Some do, but some still keep single targeting and marking everything. I've ended up tanking all of Baelsar's Wall minus the bosses on WHM because of a tank like that.

Also the ones that sit and wait for everybody to be at absolute max HP, MP and TP before pulling a boss. Bonus points if they sit there and wait on the healer's shield buff to wear off before pulling. Like why? Divine Benison isn't going to pull aggro like that...