Of Tanking and WoD

[Mahri]

It feels weird having 3 tanks and you have to roll a dice to see who's tanking the next boss, or in my case be the first guy charging at the boss with a small army backing you up.

This is a legit gripe, but hard to reconcile. Nobody really wants to communicate intent beyond ready checks and just charging right in. I've run it so many times now that it no longer feels worth it to try. Just assume you're the MT. If someone steps up and keeps aggro steadily, particularly the bosses, then it's fine to step out and turn off Defiance/turn on Sword Oath and just whack things, but be ready to switch back into tank mode if that one dies.

Now then, there's also the situation where you've got things under control but another tank suddenly decides they want it instead, but I'm i110 and if I go all-out I can make an i130 PLD look like a chump.

Well, aggro-wise.

Mitigation-wise, well, uhhhh Hey thanks healers you guys are great.

[Cenebi]

This is a legit gripe, but hard to reconcile. Nobody really wants to communicate intent beyond ready checks and just charging right in. I've run it so many times now that it no longer feels worth it to try. Just assume you're the MT. If someone steps up and keeps aggro steadily, particularly the bosses, then it's fine to step out and turn off Defiance/turn on Sword Oath and just whack things, but be ready to switch back into tank mode if that one dies.

Pretty much how I operate since I'm the most geared tank my WoD 9 times out of 10. It's pretty much the only way I've found to actually tank in WoD because any time I try to take a few seconds to clarify roles, a DPS will almost instantly shout "Just pull already!" because they're too impatient to wait 10 seconds to avoid a wipe.