Quote Originally Posted by Scorcher24 View Post
Sorry, but I need to vent. I am having a problem with my groups.

Every other group is playing like the world is going to end in 2 minutes. I pull a pack, lob my shield in there and immediately the whole shebang goes off. Heals, damage, the whole thing. Of course 2 mobs are running straight to the healer, my marked target to attack switches to the dps, while I try to save the healer. Pleas to wait for a Flash go unheard. I am not sure how to deal with that. If I say something, you only get comments like "L2P" or even worse.


People don't seem to realize that you have a 2.5 second GCD that you cannot circumvent as a Tank.
Something positive for you to think about as I see you're level 49, at level 50 you get Circle of Scorn, it's great at the start of pulls because it's AoE and off the GCD. It will help a ton with that annoying pause before Flash is available at the start of pulls. I also use it on bosses as there is nothing I hate more than a trigger happy DPS ruining my positioning of a boss mob. Lob - SoC - Flash in the first 2.5 seconds of the fight will give you plenty of time to sort everything out 99.9% of the time.

Even with strong DPS that usually buys me more than enough time to position, pop CD's and use Spirits Within on my first mob (while HP is high) before I even start my hate combo rotation. If in doubt though just Flash twice instead of once and you should be good.

Don't expect DPS to wait for you though because they wont for the most part, CoS will be a great tool to help solve the problem.