"You pull, you tank" is a bad mentality

[DayHealer]

Pretty much after level 32, you have all the W2W tools you need. Default mode for tank (should be) = pull it all.

Except in Aurum Vale.

[Zebraoracle]

Except in Aurum Vale.

Aurum Vale is fine if you're not brand new to it/party has decent gear. Just pull through the first room to the boss's room and line of sight everything in that little corner and AoE it down, just like every other dungeon. Every other pull in the dungeon is standard fare. AV isn't the boogieman people make it out to be.

[Nestama]

One thing people could do in AV is just... sac the tank at the first boss room. Tank runs ahead of everyone, pulls everything in the designated path and then tries to survive until they reach the boss room. Everyone else can safely run to the boss room and do nothing until the tank needs to be res'd.

[Venjenz]

Except in Aurum Vale.

Yeah, but AV first room generally is easy, just pull to left side of each frog and stay there until pack is dead, move to next frog, don't stand in the bad. And it could be W2W'd, but in a random you cannot assume that your team is necessarily up to it, and doing the "pack per frog" thing might extend the run by 40-50 seconds? Across the level range, there are some dungeons that have a similar "you can do it, but is it worth it" section or two where caution makes more sense. If those spots honk the DPS off...cool, go pull for me if you think we got this. We'll see. If we pull it off, good for them and I now know I was being too cautious. Nothing better than git'ing gud, yeah?

[TBerry]

Yeah, but AV first room generally is easy, just pull to left side of each frog and stay there until pack is dead, move to next frog, don't stand in the bad. And it could be W2W'd, but in a random you cannot assume that your team is necessarily up to it, and doing the "pack per frog" thing might extend the run by 40-50 seconds? Across the level range, there are some dungeons that have a similar "you can do it, but is it worth it" section or two where caution makes more sense. If those spots honk the DPS off...cool, go pull for me if you think we got this. We'll see. If we pull it off, good for them and I now know I was being too cautious. Nothing better than git'ing gud, yeah?

The first thing I do when I tank and get Aurum Vale is say "Stick to the wall".