How can you tell a bad tank?

[Physic]

There are two types of tanks in this game.

One kind needs a big heal every 10 seconds or so, while the other tank, it's like they arent wearing any armour! I watch their health bar and I swear, it's just constantly dropping so fast! Is the second type an indication you have a bad tank on your hands?

tank mitigation is only two factors gear, and cooldowns. Cooldowns is only some of the time, mostly its gear, but since many tanks are in a dungeon in order to get gear, it's kind of unreasonable to expect them to be max gear.

i would say a good tank plays to the team, so they should adapt to thier mitigation, groups dps, and healer's heals

[Forever_Learning]

i would say a good tank plays to the team, so they should adapt to thier mitigation, groups dps, and healer's heals

What's your feeling on the following:

I tried telling the tank to pull less in a somewhat cheeky way.

I said: If you keep pulling like that, I will have to spend the entire time spamming heals and have no room for DPS.

Tank said: Keep spamming heals, we already have two DPS.

So, I did, but then he needed as much healing during the boss fights as during the large pulls, so it was a wipe fest till a DPS left.

I keep looking back on it thinking I should have said something like 'That's not really how pulls are supposed to go' or 'do something more than just grit!'

[Physic]

What's your feeling on the following:

I tried telling the tank to pull less in a somewhat cheeky way.

I said: If you keep pulling like that, I will have to spend the entire time spamming heals and have no room for DPS.

Tank said: Keep spamming heals, we already have two DPS.

So, I did, but then he needed as much healing during the boss fights as during the large pulls, so it was a wipe fest till a DPS left.

I keep looking back on it thinking I should have said something like 'That's not really how pulls are supposed to go' or 'do something more than just grit!'

nah, there isn't much you can do, he didn't seem that interested in adapting his gameplay to the current team, you tried, that's all you can do.