This is the biggest reason why Tanks and Healers are designed to be braindead easy.

[Renathras]

Not being antagonistic by correcting you, but I'm pretty sure the tank wasn't aoeing so smn was always going to rip aggro when the tank isn't doing their aoe to get aggro on the mobs. They just plunged in and went straight into single target.

It's possible, but when the SAM said he was "running ahead", that kind of implies he's moving ahead of the group and pulling things. Some DPSers feel that's their right, if not responsibility (the people who reject "you spank it you tank it" and think everyone else in the party is their slave and that they, alone, get to call the shots for the party's pace, size of pulls, etc). Note that the SMN didn't deny he was doing so. He instead said that it didn't matter. I think that's also where the "stop running" comment came from, that either the SMN was running ahead of the group or the SMN was getting agro then running all over the place, preventing the Tank from pulling off of them.

If I'm in a group and the Tank isn't AOEing...I don't AOE. But that aside, I also don't run ahead and pull things, then complain that the Tank didn't get them off me. It sounds like that's what was happening here.

Now, there is an issue in that so many attacks do AOE now (like all of SMN's summons do) and so can't be avoided, but that's also true of Tank abilities like Circle of Scorn or Double Down. So even doing their single target rotations, Tanks should be pulling agro in their radius, right? Unless the DPSer is running off and then running around and not going to the Tank.

We'd need to see the video, and we'd also need to see the Tank's side (if they are a really new player, they may legitimately not know or have realized rotations). Instead, we're getting a snapshot from one person's side who is trying to belittle and publicly shame other people. I'm always VERY cautious when I see only one person's side of ANY story.

As Cole Evyx points out, this is probably not a clear cut case of griefing.

Wait... the tanks first name was Ren?!

Is this the ultimate plot twist before us?

lol, thought that myself at first. Sorry, but no. I don't Tank random stuff anymore, and I use AOE rotations - they're easier than single-target anyway.