Quote Originally Posted by Sleigh View Post
When you say "bad habit" or "crutch" I am so confused by what you actually mean in this situation, no offense, because tanking's not hard, you just do what your gear allows.
I say crutch because there is no disadvantage to pulling and hitting buttons as you run. Just because it 'can' be done face pulling doesn't make it in anyway better, or more efficient. It's a safety measure. Just because you can drive without a seat belt and not die doesn't make it a good idea. It's something so suptidly simple and can save your butt. Just like aggro on pulls isn't always needed but it's so easy to do, and can save you when thi ng s don't go well that it's dumb not to.

Again:
fact: given a choice between tank pulling with aggro, or without aggro, aggro is unequivocally better. There is no advantage at all to having zero hate vs some hate. That is not a debatable point. If you can wave a magic wand to have aggro on everything you face pull it would be better 100% of the time.

Fact: many tanks have been, and continue to pull without taking stupid amounts of damage by hitting buttons on the run to generate aggro on stuff.

Simple logic: aggro better than no aggro+ways to make aggro without excessive damage =better than face pull. Therefore tanks that don't are just adding risk because they can't be bothered to hit buttons. Lazy. Bad. Insert term. If aggro is better and can be done without any real penalties, but yu choose not to anyway, what else do you call that
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We get it. Pld sprint is cool in certain circumstances. That doesn't undo the fundamentals of mass pulls.

Pld sprint runs are a special case that don't make efficiencies in all groups (need castor dps so all can sprint) and obviously doesn't work for wars. What plds can add in run speed wars can add in damage anyway.