Just a query on Tanks running before all trash is cleared

[Fenrir-Sin]

I hope this doesn't sound too much like a complaint, I'm just trying to understand as I can't see the reasoning behind it. It seems to be becoming more and more common for tanks to pull, for example, 2 groups of trash, dps begin to burn them down, then the tank runs to the next group before all enemies have been dealt with. Quite often during this, buffs and procs are falling off and it's amazing how often I've seen the tank even run into locked doors that won't open until all trash has been cleaned. I guess my question here is why? Is there a advantage to this? A dps gain I'm not seeing?

[Jollyy5]

To keep it brief: No, they are just bad.

[Makeda]

To keep it brief: No, they are just bad.

...

Basically tanks get called bad if they do NOT do this...

And I guess here we have people calling them bad if they do DO it...

Can't win either way.

'pull more, go, go, go'
vs
'why u pull bro?'

So... what to do?

[Mhaeric]

'pull more, go, go, go'
vs
'why u pull bro?'

So... what to do?

Neither of those is what this thread is asking for. I'll put it in your terms:

'why you stay in one spot long enough for dps to think it's okay to pop all their cooldowns and then run to the next pack so that those cooldowns are wasted?'

I get why a tank might have to stop to collect a stray mob if one gets away from them, but once you've stood in one spot for longer than 10 seconds it should be committed to. I've noticed this too, but have chalked it up to the higher number of players that on average are newer due to the recent expansion. It'll die off soon, and we'll go back to the usual one pack at a time vs. wall to wall pull arguments.

[MagiusNecros]

They believe they'll get faster runs. But it just annoys DPS and puts extra strain on healers.

[Doozer]

It's definitely annoying, though I've seen both healers and DPS do it as well. It's not a type of stupidity exclusive to tanks, unfortunately.

[Canadane]

Yeah I keep seeing more people do this recently, and I don't know why.
I've heard some say they wanna finish their AOE combo. As a tank main I can assure everyone that isn't needed.

[Fenrir-Sin]

Canadane exactly, as a Samurai I often lose jinpu and shifu when tanks do this and I always hear a very loud sigh from my friend who plays Dragoon as his life of the dragon falls off XD

[Fenrir-Sin]

Thank you all for the fast replies I was thinking this was the case but I thought I would ask incase I was missing something.

[Snow_Leonhart]

Maybe they think if they do that they are helping by keeping u dpsing constantly where ur buffs dont fall off between pulls. Not saying its right ir wrong and i dont know if thats the reason but sounds good lol.