Quote Originally Posted by Vulcann View Post
i feel like threads like this, or more importantly the replies are the reason there are a lack of tank/healers in the duty roulette.

tanks get bashed when they pull "too little" and say they are "griefing" other people when not pulling wall to wall.
healers get bashed when the tank pulls everything and wipe.

then you have the wannabe pro's promoting this mindset with replies to post like this, even though most of them probably run with static groups.
This excuse really gets tiresome. While it may apply to some, they're a minority at best. Even if the dev team enforced smaller pulls in some manner or another, thus ending this argument. Tank and healer numbers wouldn't budge. Why? DPS are typically more interesting. Look at the primary complaint regarding healers on nearly every online discussion forum. They're boring. Tanks fall into the same category, though less so because they at least have a rotation to optimize. Healers spend more time spamming their single target nukes than healing spells. Which irks a lot of people who enjoy the healer fancy.

As for running with statics. I'll speak only for myself but 99% of the time I'll queue solo or with my BFF. I've mass pulled with healer sporting questionable gear and healed giant pulls where the tanks were like tissue paper. In fact, I'll always tell tanks to pull more if they do a single pull because of how boring it is otherwise. The simple fact is dungeons are a complete cakewalk even if you're pulling everything and the kitchen sink. There are only two pulls in the ShB dungeon worth being anxious about. The super pull in Qitana Ravel where you force the apes to spawn early and the insane pull after the second boss of Mt. Gulg where you drag every mob all the way to where the mini boss spawns. That latter pull not only does an obscene amount of damage to even geared tanks, you'll have tons of AoEs being targeted at you constantly.

Qitana is still very much manageable but can shock unsuspecting healers. Mt. Gulg... is the only pull in the whole game I'll actually ask healers if they want to attempt it.