People who ask for marks in DF

[AridElf]

I always mark. Whenever I join a dungeon I always ask what happened to their previous tank, their style, and if they did anything which the group didn't like so I can avoid the same mistake. I have yet to replace a tank that DID mark targets, and my group always seem to sing praises when I tell them that I DO mark targets.

Just get into the habit, it's not difficult and it makes pulls a lot easier. Is it really worth a few extra seconds shaved off your dungeon timer when mobs are scattered everywhere and your healer is losing MP from having to heal more than just one person? For the sake of the healer's brain, I prefer to burn one mob at a time.

It takes longer to raise a fallen ally or retry a pull from aggro flying all over the place than it does taking the targets one at a time.

[Ehayte]

AE vs Single Target Burns, let's look at a typical party's pull of trash mobs in AK:

Mob 1 - 100 DPS - 20k hp
Mob 2 - 125 DPS - 20k hp
Mob 3 - 100 DPS - 20k hp

If we AE them down, and the party is doing, let's say 500dps total between all mobs, we are left with:
120 seconds of 325 DPS (100+125+100) = 39,000 damage dealt to the tank.

Now, let's say we single target burn with marks, we're doing the same dps, but one at a time:
Mob1 - up for 120s - produces 100dps = 12,000 damage produced
Mob3 - up for 80s - produces 100dps = 8,000 damage produced
Mob2 - up for 40s - produces 125dps = 5,000 damage produced
Total damage produced: 25,000

So we now have about 64% of total damage produced. That's literally the most powerful debuff I have ever heard of in this game. Now, if you are overgeared it matters so little and the time is the same without the pesky targeting. If you are a fledgling group or you have low tankage/healing power, marking REALLY helps.