PSA: How to Off-Tank in World of Darkness

[lvlagmarink]

Don't you know that it's been a trend at least in Chaos Data center that you can go afk, chatting, watching porn or only god knows what those few players do in WoD run that they just get close to the boss, do a few hits, then just leaves it there.. So they pretend to hit the boss, while doing something else on that time, of course they'll get hit by every aoe, dead, while only give auto attack, getting raised to only do the same thing again and again.. Since i've been trying to get puff of darkness and the card, for every run from 24 players, there's gotta be at least 2 or 3 of this kind of players.. I assume that they just get really bored from not getting drops from the said raid.. And this occurs to tank, healers and dps.. Mostly dos but the ratio of dps is 15:6:3..

[Alistaire]

Don't you know that it's been a trend at least in Chaos Data center that you can go afk, chatting, watching porn or only god knows what those few players do in WoD run that they just get close to the boss, do a few hits, then just leaves it there.. So they pretend to hit the boss, while doing something else on that time, of course they'll get hit by every aoe, dead, while only give auto attack, getting raised to only do the same thing again and again.. Since i've been trying to get puff of darkness and the card, for every run from 24 players, there's gotta be at least 2 or 3 of this kind of players.. I assume that they just get really bored from not getting drops from the said raid.. And this occurs to tank, healers and dps.. Mostly dos but the ratio of dps is 15:6:3..

True, but that's entirely a different issue. We're not talkin about afk tanks (or anyone) here, it's a matter of what offtanks that are actively playing should do. I've had someone that was clearly offtank tell me "I always leave defiance up" when I politely assumed they had forgotten to take it down. It's like they don't understand how provoke works and feel the need to cement themselves in 2nd place on the hate list fulltime. Which you don't. Which shouldn't even need to be said. And there's so very little even for the 2nd tank to do there let alone the third. 2 tanks is plenty for trash pulls and 1 for bosses, but you have to have 3 or df wouldn't quite work right.

And then someone posts a guide like this which is partly way off in left field and the rest is just completely unnecessary.