Tanks, please use buffs

[Zfz]

My brain. It hurts. Why would someone waist a pie like that ;_;

It's not a waist piece, it's a chest piece. Oh wait...

Back on topic, I think I recall, very vaguely, that there were some macros floating around that activated the cooldowns for the player. If I remember correctly, it appeared in 2.0, perhaps from some WoW players, I'm not sure. I've forgotten what the reason was behind people writing those macros, but perhaps it had something to do with the fact that in 2.0 there were no such thing as big pulls all the way until the notorious full Darklight wall-to-wall pulls and sac runs. May have something to do with that kind of circumstances, maybe?

On a more constructive note, perhaps it's a good idea to have separate threads on damage mitigation effects for tanks, and a pinned index thread, living in the Tank sub-forum? But I suppose the forum here lacks someone to keep the index thread updated.

[Altena]

Lol, you're a drg. Literally the last person to call anyone bad. Don't worry about the tank, just continue counting the pixels on the floor next to where your corpse is while the healer debates on wasting MP rezzing you just so you can die again.

Eh? Who says I am a DRG?

My DRG is probably my least geared role....

Here is a link to my lodestone just to show you I have nothing to hide..
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You can potentially look me up on a certain log website as well if you like.

[Ametrine]

I'm honestly cringing a bit at that piety 6 meld.

Considering you a quick to dismiss a Dragoon for calling BS, is all that piety so you can clemancy spam yourself from chasing off healers?

[Kewitt]

I used to Main warrior. I just started playing SB about a week ago because well I was in the hospital with 2 broken legs. But I kind of like playing WHM and other healers when Tanks are lazy. It make the jobs more about healing.. and less about DPSing.
But I do get where your coming from and when I do play tank.. I play them correctly.

[Xetagonist]

Considering you a quick to dismiss a Dragoon for calling BS, is all that piety so you can clemancy spam yourself from chasing off healers?

Piety doesn't even affect Tanks because it's a job specific stat for healers only. This guy is absolute bonkers especially when he goes off with that remark about DRGs.

Also, that guy only has DRK maxed out so all the more I'm puzzled (and amused) at the illogical piety meld.

Doesn't piety only affect healers now? Why would they meld that?

Dunno. Ask the genius himself

[NyteKitsune]

Heh, as a tank I know to use them all too well, and yet, when I heal or dps I always seem to get the tank who forgets or just doesn't bother using the buffs.

Best to pull, grab what you're going to fight, gruop them all together and THEN pop your cooldowns.. not all at once, but one at a time, as one expires, pop the next.
Now, as I do prefer tanking as a PLD, BIG pulls tend to be easier with them as PLD does have that what 15-20sec invincible one, then I follow it with the other 2-3 in sequence of strongest to weakest. Typically all but the worst of healers rarely have issues with a pull using that sequence.

But, one thing that all tanks should know, is to know your limit, not all tanks are equal, just because you see someone make a pull, doesn't mean you can make that same pull, don't be afraid to pull lighter. Just because many people are in a rush to get thru everything, doesn't mean you need to.

[Ametrine]

Piety doesn't even affect Tanks because it's a job specific stat for healers only. This guy is absolute bonkers especially when he goes off with that remark about DRGs.

Also, that guy only has DRK maxed out so all the more I'm puzzled (and amused) at the illogical piety meld.



Dunno. Ask the genius himself

Incredible.
DRK have as good/better methods to refresh MP than actual healers. If you feel so mana starved on the job you feel compelled to use one of those clusters on Piety, then that's probably a bad sign.