Quote Originally Posted by Leonus View Post
Tanks are usually the leader? Is this an actual thing? Is that a self proclaimed role due to being the guy getting your face pushed in?
It likely comes from games where only the party leader could mark, and since the tank generally marks it means the tank would be the leader. Rest of the 'lead the dungeon' stuff came along with it. Tank generally has to pay more attention to the average fight than a random dps so they're more likely to be the one to explain it, etc.



And yes, some dps can't keep it in their pants. I've yelled at my friend when he pulls a boss when all I had time to do was Tomahawk > Heavy Swing even though I had Unchained active. Could do an uncombo'd Butcher's (if single target and you don't need Flash/Overpower to keep things off the healer initially) after the Tomahawk, but at that point you're starting to have to play suboptimal to cover for the sloppy play of others. Tanking is too easy from all the overgearing for me to pay that much attention most of the time anymore. I miss trash that hit so hard you actually CC'd some of the time. When DPS would faceplant if they got hit 2-3 times by even one of them rather than just shrugging if they pull 2 of the 3 off a tank that's either weak or that they severely outgear (because a half decent healer can heal a non tank through it anyways), thus their lack of caution. Aoe fests are so mindless, boring, and unengaging to me.