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    tanking part 2

    (Pace) As a tank you, determine the pace of the dungeon, with that being said, you must always gauge the damage of your party versus the size of the pull. If it takes too long to dps down, your healer will spend more mana to keep you alive. If that's the case, reduce the size of your pulls to reduce stress on the healer and to fit the pull size to damage output.

    (The Face Puller) There are players that are dps, most commonly ranged, that will pull the mobs for you. This can be for two reasons:

    The "i have no time for this" guy, and they will pull ahead of you. In their mind you are not fast enough, so they are being a"pal", and helping you out. Now make no mistake, this player is a veteran and trolling you.

    2. The rarest of the pair,but whom exists nonetheless, is the "MMORPG new player”.Now this guy doesn't do it on purpose, he just doesn't know any better.

    Now, I understand that this is enraging, but the path of "you pull it,you tank it" is not the right path. Instead drop a line asking them to stop. If it's a new player they may ask why (rare,very rare), and if it's not a new player then they will not stop. Now I encourage you, as a tank, to test yourself at this point. View this assault to common sense and to all that is good with the trinity,(tank,healer and dps) to learn from this. First, don't lose your cool and second, try and regain control of the mobs. One at a time if you have to. It may not feel like it but this, in the long run, will make you a hell of a tank. This situation added another tool to your tanking kit called "it's cool bro I got this", instead of embarrassing yourself typing in caps and losing further control of the mobs. You, my friend, have just outclassed a grade A troll.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ramzakristos View Post
    (Pace) As a tank you, determine the pace of the dungeon, with that being said, you must always gauge the damage of your party versus the size of the pull. If it takes too long to dps down, your healer will spend more mana to keep you alive. If that's the case, reduce the size of your pulls to reduce stress on the healer and to fit the pull size to damage output.

    (The Face Puller) There are players that are dps, most commonly ranged, that will pull the mobs for you. This can be for two reasons:

    The "i have no time for this" guy, and they will pull ahead of you. In their mind you are not fast enough, so they are being a"pal", and helping you out. Now make no mistake, this player is a veteran and trolling you.
    It sounds like a veteran giving you a subtle hint to go faster without calling you out directly in front of the party.
    It's not always the tank the determines how fast you can go. I say this as a life long tank main. There are other situations at hand. If for some reason your party isn't wall to wall pulling, there could be a number of reasons why a DPS went on ahead. To keep stacks going, the flow steady, or the tank is just going way too slow.

    The endgame to non-levelling dungeons is being able to pull everything. Work towards that, and encourage others to do so as well.
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