Why Speed Pulls?

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Let me first begin with a massive eyeroll. . .

You interpreted my "I can tank as a Bard" statement as "I can consistently keep aggro with no enmity tools", and that's not what I said. Had I meant that, I'd have said that. Please don't read between the lines when there's nothing there. Oh and this might just be my "inefficient", "non-optimal" BLM experience talking (this is stated retro-actively to a later statement here) but doesn't Apocatastasis defend against magic attacks? Didn't see a whole lot of magic going on there. And yes, my healer kept me alive. . . good healer! Moving on:

Good players find no difficulty in maintaining optimal DPS. Neither do I. By the same token, I neither live or die by it either.
They do not refresh dots when the target will die before they are useful. DoTs or not, those ARE my attacks too. So then, what? Heavy Shot til it's dead? *eyeroll*
They do not forget to execute. #notperfect Sue me. *eyeroll* (P.S., yes they do. Dat human element tho. . .)
They do not forget to use cooldowns. And yet somehow I survived AND managed to kill my enemies. Whew!
They do not move sluggishly and unoptimally (controller or no). HA! This is just stupid. Sorry. It really is.
They do not try to bind things then instantly break them free of it with their next GCD. You're right. That's why I stopped using that. Don't even have it on my hotbar anymore.
They do not use AoE spells when it is in-optimal to use them. Unless you're referring to the BLM, who I won't make any comment on (purely because I didn't know anything BLM related until recently when I finally decided to level the class myself), I didn't see any spells cast from me there. . . And yes, I know you know that I know what you meant, but if we're really gonna split hairs, then let's take it there.
They do not find dodging highly-telegraphed AoEs(first boss) any degree of difficult. I'm sorry, what role was I essentially filling? And what do tanks normally do? Oh yeah, take hits that the rest of the party generally shouldn't take. Oh, but I suppose that'd be considered an excuse for getting hit once or twice (guess what else I wasn't counting?) I otherwise weave in and out of things so much I ought to go in as a Weaver. My ability to dodge things (is rather unorthodox if not a bit risky) is something I'm actually quite proud of. Especially under NORMAL circumstances. But hey, #notperfect. Find me someone who is. (Don't actually do this. I'm now convinced you probably would)

But hey, go ahead and try to accurately judge me from a 7 month old video I made for fun. Was it hard? No. Did any of us play "efficiently" or "optimize [insert one-sided reasoning to sustain an argument here]"? Nope. We went in to make a video clearing Halatali HM with no tank. And we did. And it was fun. <----- Hey look, it's that word again. "Fun". That thing I like to prioritize over efficiency and optimal anything for everything. You want to prove I'm not good. I get that. You WANT to be right. I get that. I do. But fact is you've derailed an entire argument just to try and discredit one player. You're wrong for that alone. And rather petty. Yet delightful in your pettiness.

Oh and THEN there's the playing nice and trying the "Since you're not bringing a well thought out argument to the table, I'm done replying to you" bit. Sorry, buddy. No bowing out gracefully. This isn't one of your "optimal", efficient setups. And this is definitely not MY first rodeo, let alone Zedd's or plenty of others. If you can't handle a little bit of inefficiency or work outside of optimal conditions, who's really the bad - I'm sorry, "not so good" player here?

P.S. Nice edit BTW. I've captured the original statement and will not change it. As for your "higher caliber", subjective nature aside, I'm confident enough in my own abilities, now more than 7 months ago. But sure, use that. Keep trying to defame me. Speaks in volumes of your own caliber.