Tanks that want to take it slow?

[Misutoraru]

Didn'cha know? As long as you're more casual than those around you, the value of your playtime exceeds theirs. The more elitist you are, the less human you must be, and we don't care about 'dem elitist robot lives.

Now time to drive down the freeway at 50 mph in the leftmost lane 'cus I'm not elitist like that and I could care less when I arrive to work (or inconvenience anyone behind me)...



What is optimal, by definition, is objective. It's just a matter of what the goal is.

If the point of, say, the Expert Roulette, is simply to tomes to prep your gear -- as it is for most people -- and the food you would be using cost 30k apiece, unless you're rolling in gil it'd make little sense to pop raid food in a dungeon run because you'd then have to spend time recouping that loss. The difference to run speed would be negligible yet there'd be a somewhat noticeable (negative) impact to your time in other ways, especially if not making full use of the duration of the food. Pulling multiple groups of mobs, on the other hand, is a significant difference to the run time, and costs nothing.

I am afraid is not that simple, one might think 30k food cost almost nothing as he/she might be a billionaire in game and it still boost up the killing speed even by little, that player might think doing 99% effectiveness is optimal, other might thing doing correct rotation is optimal and do not think it is a big issue if the buff/CD timing miss aligned by a bit.
I am not against big pull, but I believe big or small is not a single player decision, it is the group effort, healer tank and dps they all have to contribute for a big pull to success. It is the majority in the party decide the pace. If a tank or heal want a smaller pull because of unfamiliar with either the role or the dungeon, I think it is absolutely fine for them to request and discuss, only the party disagree and they refuse then it might be the issue

[NosamKin]

Actually if you feel that strongly about it then just play a tank role!
Then you can pull as big as you like.

Otherwise...