tanks not using cooldowns?

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Does it seriously require more coordination to NOT hit a mob than it does to hit a mob?

Yes.



Obviously it does.




Especially when it is a waste of time in most instances to CC, and when the games meta is speedrun everything. You are not playing those old games, though now I understand why you can't give it up, but not admitting how it doesn't actually go with the way the devs have designed the game is willfully ignoring it.

If the tank pulls big, it is to kill everything, not to CC. If they don't want multiple groups pulled they don't pull them. What is the point of pulling two groups, if you are going to sleep one anyway? If the tank doesn't have aggro, it is either because they did it wrong, or the healer when ape early, in which case, they need to learn how to play.

I get frustrated because this is second nature to anyone that played old school MMOs.

You are not playing an old school MMO. Its not that people don't understand CC, it is not useful in this game, at least not enough to be part of the meta. As others have said, it would be nice if it was, but using it just to use it, doesn't make it useful. It just means you are doing the run slower, because you like to play that way, which is fine, but not useful.