What's up with tanks?

[Zumi]

Honestly you should be following the tank, they are the leader, they pull the mobs and set the pace of the dungeon. Lagging behind because your not paying attention as a healer or dps that's your fault.

[amnie]

Honestly you should be following the tank, they are the leader, they pull the mobs and set the pace of the dungeon. Lagging behind because your not paying attention as a healer or dps that's your fault.

so, I've seen a few people claim this before in this very topic, but who the hell decided on this and why the hell have I NEVER seen it become an 'MMO rule' even though I've been playing them for almost 14 years now?

granted Tanks do make good raid leaders since they already have to pay attention to pretty much everything, but so do healer and ranged dps. hell, our main raid's leader in my LOTRO kinship (and that was progression raiding) was a freaking burglar and he was AMAZING at his job (burglar = melee dps)

the leader is the leader. i'm not 'switching' my role depending on which class I play and i don't expect others to do so, either. I also think you don't understand what 'being a leader' means when you think it's cool of a LEADER to not wait for the rest of his troop. I take you're not a military person