The 'unwritten rule' for non-tank pulls in dungeons

[van_arn]

And we are back to the whole "Wiping the group by demanding bigger pulls than the tank or healer can handle, then bitching about it when everybody dies and kicking the tank over your own failures instead of admitting you were in the wrong" thing.

No, tanks are not invulnerable, we do not have infinite hit points, we do not have invulns that can be up 24/7, there are limits to what cooldowns can do.

"Use cooldowns lol!" says the ignorant DPS to the tank who is already using cooldowns and getting their teeth kicked in anyway.

"OMG WE WIPED! KICK THE TANK!" screams the DPS who demanded bigger pulls when the healer was already struggling as it was, because there are the odd pulls who hit like a train, especially when content is new. I'm looking at you Hell's Lid.

And people wonder why their ques are so long. Well gee golly, maybe being blamed for things they have no control over because the tank is the designated scapegoat whenever the DPS misjudges and get everybody killed might have something to do with it?

Having the DPS run ahead and megapull on you, culminating in you taking ridiculous amounts of damage per GCD even through tank stance and Rampart, then dying because the healer could not keep up, swiftly followed by a party wipe, then getting blamed for it and then kicked by the loudmouth of a DPS who did the pull is going to turn a lot of people off tanking.

Heck, even if the death is caused by the healer not healing because they are too busy DPS'ing, it's still the tank who get's blamed by the group when they drop dead, been there, had that happen.

Usually when a tank gets kicked, it's because the party knows it can handle more than the tank is picking up.

It's fine for a party to kick a tank.

It's also fine for the tank to quit tanking if they take it personally; making a party work is a pillar of tanking, and if they get kicked by the party they can't handle that pillar.

The only suckers here are the DPS that stay in a queue for 50 minutes. Don't ever do that. Make friends, get a better FC, or find something better to do with your time.