My first experience at tanking

[Vahlnir]

Yes because that's my role. They'll be confident enough knowing I take the weight off their shoulders and you haven't actually adressed anything of what I was saying. I will not change my playstyle even if you use the worst insults on me. I will continue to play Sheriff in this game and make sure that DPS don't enforce their idea of what a tank is supposed to be. I am a jerk of course, might not be the kindest, but you and this other guy really want it your way clearly. Like I said, accept that not everyone wants to do it that way.

Your role is to take the hits for your team, not dominate them.

[Shin96]

Your role is to take the hits for your team, not dominate them.

I do that and I judge the situation based on my team's skill. If I see a healer underperforming and clearly struggling, I will adjust to them. If a DPS is funny enough to disregard that fact I will slap them on the wrist. Deal with it.

And dominating in the context that I will take the blame if something goes wrong. If my strategy doesn't work out you can blame me for it and I'm okay with that.

[Vahlnir]

Deal with it.

Luckily we are on different data centers so I will never have to.

Call it contrarianism or whatever, but I think tanks set the pace for pulling. If I feel like the pace is up to par for larger pulls then I'll recommend it, otherwise I won't delve in it further.

They do set the pace, but tanks also don't need the party to submit to a tank's will. It's a team effort. Every role is important. Just because the tank sets the pace, doesn't mean they are the "law" and that they reign supreme. That's just having a really big ego.

[Shin96]

Luckily we are on different data centers so I will never have to.

You are allowed to think however you want. I have nothing against you personally and I wish you the best, regardless of our difference in opinion.

I dominate not to make people feel bad or worse about their performance but I do it so I can make sure everything goes well. Thus my predicament regarding the DPS pulling.

[Vaern]

I dominate

Except you don't. You play a support role, just like I do. Healers are the one actually dominating because they litterally choose who stays alive and who doesn't.
Tho we tanks are indeed in charge of setting up the pace of the party. But I wouldn't call that dominating.

[Shin96]

Except you don't. You play a support role, just like I do. Healers are the one actually dominating because they litterally choose who stays alive and who doesn't.
Tho we tanks are indeed in charge of setting up the pace of the party. But I wouldn't call that dominating.

A support role by making decisions how to approach enemies and how to pull them and when it is appropriate to. In the broader context that I dominate the party and the enemies in the decision-making of what is appropriate based on our skill and overall performance. Some people seem to think I want to step on them (some people like that too) but that's not what I mean. How you define it is up to you entirely but I believe as a tank you're at the top of making decisions and the healer's job is not to kill their party, conversely a DPS shouldn't play like a tank when the circumstances of your party haven't been layed bare yet. If a healer pulls enemies that's fine because I can see their confidence but a DPS has no healing power to sustain the whole party and that already shows me their ego is bigger than the amount of enemies they pull. This can easily go wrong in certain instances.

[Vaern]

A support role by making decisions how to approach enemies and how to pull them and when it is appropriate to. In the broader context that I dominate the party and the enemies in the decision-making of what is appropriate based on our skill and overall performance

We're leading the way, aggroing everything and taking hits. That's about the easiest decision making you can get. Just pull wall to wall without even thinking, it works 99% of the time.

a DPS shouldn't play like a tank when the circumstances of your party haven't been layed bare yet.

I think I can count on one hand the number of times my healer couldn't keep up with wall to wall pulls.
In that case I can't even say if I ever got a dps who felt as if it wasn't going fast enough and decided to pull everything on their own. I guess it surely wouldn't help an already underperforming healer.

the healer's job is not to kill their party

And our job is to take hits for our team, that includes not letting our dps die no matter how fun it actually is to watch them pull mobs to quickly hug the floor afterwards.

[Kaurhz]

Luckily we are on different data centers so I will never have to.



They do set the pace, but tanks also don't need the party to submit to a tank's will. It's a team effort. Every role is important. Just because the tank sets the pace, doesn't mean they are the "law" and that they reign supreme. That's just having a really big ego.

They don't, no. Conversely, tanks aren't required to submit to the will of other players anyway. It is something you communicate adequately with the group instead of running off on your own accord, so this statement really does go both ways, thanks for creating another point for me though.

If I'm tanking any given dungeon, the first thing I will find out is how adequately the other members of the party are geared. If they are adequately geared, I will ask if the healer would prefer larger or smaller pulls (establishing their comfortability). The first pull of the dungeon I will use to confirm the comfortability of the group, if I feel they can adequately handle the packs and if I'm not suffering from CD exhaustion on the first pull then I will continue at the pace, else I will step it down.

If you ask me it is bold to assume that the tank and healer can handle what DPS pull on their own accord without first confirming it with the group.