Surrounded - a Tank question

[Noxifer]

If you're doing large pulls, which is the only time I've experienced mobs trying to adjust themselves, Melee dps should always be AoEing in current Roulette dungeons anything else is a dps lost and their messing up their own damage potential.

I see that you conveniently didn't quote the part of my post where I gave examples of when:

(for buffs or because there are other reasons to not do AoE damage skills, like in lower level dungeons where they don't really have those yet).

^_~

But yes, the higher in level you go, and certainly at 50+, AoE attacks should be the primary use in larger pulls. I don't play melee classes that much myself, so I don't really know the numbers on skill potency and how many mobs need to be in the group to make it a gain instead of a loss (my 'pet' BLM said at some point that the number of mobs needed to not lose DPS by using AoE has gone up slightly with HW and later patches, but that's for BLM and not melee, so... *shrugs*). I'm just saying that this doesn't always happen. For Reasons. =)