When do the training wheels come off?

[Nixxe]

So communication and coordination is for inexperienced casuals? Right.. I'm sure the top end raiders don't use those skills at all.

The numbering of mobs by the tank was just simple and quick communication of which mobs were going to get agro built up first allowing single target dps to safely focus on a target and go to town. The one marked 1 often was a priority target anyways. And the 2nd told the same dps which mob was going to have more agro built up on it so they could continue at full speed. Plus during all of that a good tank also probably built up more than plenty if agro on everything so that healers and aoe dps didn't pull hate either.

But then again, tanks got it easy now and can just spam a single low potency aoe and not worry about anyone pulling hate so long as tank stance is on instead of actually having to build and manage agro across the whole enemy group by using multiple abilities.

I find it really funny how quick people are to rationalize the "training wheels" when they were the ones benefiting from them. Be good and AOE them down. Don't act like ARR was difficult just because you had no idea what you were doing. Coming from WoW, ARR felt like the Little Tikes version of an MMORPG.