Discussion on tanking

[Strykr512]

As a team player, my best interest lies with the DPS themselves. If they're ready, then great it's time to pull and start tanking! Speaking frankly, within your leveling dungeons and average casual duty finder setting, there isn't anything a tank needs to wait for.

Just suck it up and voke and establish hate if your DPS pulls first.

Well the healer is also part of the team. Do tend to be squishy so now the healer has to make up for that. On top of that, the tank may not need to wait for anything for themselves but what if one of the other DPS needs to regen Mana for a sec or the healer? Before they get a sentence out the dps is already pulling. I feel if a dps wants to play tank, then they should que for tank. Otherwise go their role and wait till tank pulls

[Hierro]

Well the healer is also part of the team. Do tend to be squishy so now the healer has to make up for that. On top of that, the tank may not need to wait for anything for themselves but what if one of the other DPS needs to regen Mana for a sec or the healer? Before they get a sentence out the dps is already pulling. I feel if a dps wants to play tank, then they should que for tank. Otherwise go their role and wait till tank pulls

Let's be realistic here for a moment. If a DPS pulls first, then they won't be taking much damage to begin with. In a leveling dungeon, I don't see any real reason to expect a raid wide being followed up, which means all that's needed for said pulling-DPS to be okay is a regen from the healer. One GCD, wow! Mana really isn't an issue either since lucid dreaming's a thing too.

Do you want to get the dungeon done in a timely manner, or do you want to be "right" and let the DPS die to assert some arbitrary mindset and in the proccess take even longer?

[Ekimmak]

Let's be realistic here for a moment. If a DPS pulls first, then they won't be taking much damage to begin with. In a leveling dungeon, I don't see any real reason to expect a raid wide being followed up, which means all that's needed for said pulling-DPS to be okay is a regen from the healer. One GCD, wow! Mana really isn't an issue either since lucid dreaming's a thing too.

Do you want to get the dungeon done in a timely manner, or do you want to be "right" and let the DPS die to assert some arbitrary mindset and in the proccess take even longer?

If I specifically say "Do not pull that until we kill this mob", then I reserve the right to let a DPS die to a mob. Because there's a reason I just specified not to pull it, I know that it's going to spawn 10 different mobs, and I want the current mob dead before we deal with that.