Tanking While Undergeared

[Ehayte]

Couple responses:

For Judge - I do mark, I use a macro that marks the mob as X and puts an "Assist Me" message in party chat. I usually mark a caster or a mob that isn't going to move or a high priority mob first. From previous MMOs I am assuming that I am failing if I don't have every single mob on me at all times. Now, in high level dungeons I would expect to be failing 10-15% of the time. Is that not how its been working in high level dungeons? (i.e. is it a little sloppy and the best I can hope to do is hold a majority of the hate to take hits?)


Resolute - I am running AK for tombs. I was not intentionally rude, and I did apologize for offending the guy, but he basically made a comment that we should have just ignored the gnats on the wall. My comment back was that I didn't think our DPS was high enough to do that, as it was lower than the other AK runs I had done. He got steamed and accused me of losing aggro on 80% of mobs (not true), and I offered my apologies as I did not want to get into it with this guy, as there was no point. I asked if I could do anything better as a tank, they all ignored me and the WHM said, "talk less - play more". P.S. we finished the instance in about 40 minutes (AK) - not my best time but that is a reasonably quick clip for a PUG.

I play MMOs as social games... so I kind of like to talk and meet people and work together to get better. So I guess our play styles/mind-sets were just very different, haha.

[Amas]

Resolute - I am running AK for tombs. I was not intentionally rude, and I did apologize for offending the guy, but he basically made a comment that we should have just ignored the gnats on the wall. My comment back was that I didn't think our DPS was high enough to do that, as it was lower than the other AK runs I had done. He got steamed and accused me of losing aggro on 80% of mobs (not true), and I offered my apologies as I did not want to get into it with this guy, as there was no point. I asked if I could do anything better as a tank, they all ignored me and the WHM said, "talk less - play more". P.S. we finished the instance in about 40 minutes (AK) - not my best time but that is a reasonably quick clip for a PUG.

This was probably your mistake (and not even really a mistake). A lot of Relic/Relic+1 players are extremely bad but don't know it. They assume they're the bees' knees because they have relics and react poorly to any comments that so much as imply they're anything less than God's gift to DPS.

That being said, I don't think there's ever any reason to bother killing the bees unless your healer is a total derptard. If your DPS pace is low, it gives you more time on the wall to kill it before you run out of space. If your DPS pace is high, it's not worth wasting the time on the bees. You basically have one entire side to yourself, so you have all the space you need to keep them clustered near the wall and near the edge so that the rest of the party can plug away without having to worry about AOEs.