What have you done?

[T-Owl]

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Are we really talking about normal content here? Like, seriously? What's next, discuss classes on the basis of MSQ scenarios?

If you think you are even a casual tank if you solely focus on using cds, then sorry. You are not. You are below casual. You are basically the guy who brain afks the entire run. For most of the time, you will only need your cds if you are undergeared or pull wall to wall in dungeons and if the boss uses a tankbuster, which is a normally a long cast which you can identify as a tankbuster by guessing or being hit by it one time. And then again, it really depends on what kind of healer you have. If the healer is purely healing, I actually don't give a fuck about mitigating anything and just purely focus on damage, because it doesn't matter how much damage I eat, as long as the healer isn't playing totally afk I can never receive more damage than he could heal me for outside of wall to wall pulls. The only reason you would even want to mitigate your damage and decrease the amount of healing you need to stay alive would be so that the healer can use more of their gcds for dps spells. I mean, this is literally the only reason you would mitigate in this kind of content, to creat more dps opportunities for your heal. I'm not even sure if there is any tankbuster in normal mode or alliance raid that can actually kill you. If the healer is not dpsing, there is not a single reason for mitigation because he will use his gcds for heals no matter what and all you do by not mitigating is force the heal to afk less.

I mean, you seriously don't know what you are talking about. Your definition of an expert pro raider is an actual casual player who casually raids extreme trials or even some savage raids. You are talking about content below casual, where the game makes it as hard for you too fail as possible. I mean, fuck, this is like if in WoW a LFR Raider would tell a normal raider that he is some elitist elite pro player. This is just delusional to lift yourself to a higher level than you actually play in.

I am a totally casual player. And I never had any problems with tanking in DPS Stance, trying to pull off my rotation and increase my damage and at the same time mitigating damage and avoiding aoes. And I did it, because I knew that without this kind of support, the dps in my groups would have a quite harder time to beat the enrage timer, this is why tanks and healers always should look for optimizing their dps.

I mean, in the words of another series: You should get good. You are the guy who is carried accross the finish lines and then leeched gear from people who actually gave a shit and maybe could have needed it more than you for doing their job as good as they can.