Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
It's just that the whole word "effiency" makes me instantly sick. I hear it 8 hours per day, 5 days per week at work where it pressured on you every second like a mountain. The game is the last place where I want to hear about effiency as if I'm at work again after just finishing my work. Sometimes you just want relax.
I get that, that's why I try to avoid using that word, kinda got a laugh out of this lol

More related, as a person that's went through this game with massive social anxiety gating me in just about everything, tanking was the one thing that I never had issues with and in fact preferred to play for this reason. The role is so easy to be good at and nobody judges the tanks as hard as people wanna make it out to be so I have no idea where all the "tank anxiety" stigma comes from.

Like, when I was still a huge noob + nervous wreck, I tried playing tank for the first time in toto rak, it was the scariest thing ever. I said I was first time tank, everyone said that's okay and encouraged me, I did two groups at a time and it went really well. After that, I no longer found it scary, and in fact preferred it on all my first time runs which were always the more intimidating things to me. Because the big hp bar means you basically ignore most mechanics no matter how bad you mess up.

All these "rules" and "etiquette" ive never understood. Again, ive had healers rescuing me into stuff before, never felt offended. I thought "oh they want me to pull bigger, okay." The idea that it's rude is a made up assumption that may or not actually be true. You can't know what they're thinking if there is no verbal communication hence why I never made the assumption in the first place,even though my mind loves making assumptions. I don't know how someone could play tank a lot and somehow still be nervous about it when its not only easy but often thanked in the form of commendations' since it's really easy to tell when a tank is doing well.

Neither did it ever make me feel like I'm entitled to be the person who decides how other people play. I don't have the right to choose how fast we go. Even though they do somewhat dictate the pace, it's not a literal rule in the tos that says they have to. All of this talk is needlessly convoluted anyway. If you go in and pull big there's a 95% chance you end up fine, if not you just move on. And someone pulling for the tank doesn't mean anything. It means they want bigger pulls, it is not a personal vendetta against the person. Acting otherwise and refusing to tank the mobs is taking it wayyy too seriously when it's just a game and doesn't matter anyway lmao. Tank etiquette is made up