Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
I don't think so considering how tank anxiety is very common. With a pug you can't really say for sure if someone is a very experienced or confident tank, even if they're playing as best as anyone possibly could on a single pack.

Not even checking gear is a sure way to see if someone is experienced or not. I remember a time when my buddies and I ended up with a pug tank who had the absolute best gear you could possibly get in the tier and most of it was from savage, but their tanking...was okay at best. This was surprising considering their gear. Afterwards one of my buddies looked them up in fflogs and it turned out they only had logs as a caster and ranged phys dps.

And no, no one gave them hassle or said anything. We just did the dungeon at the pace the tank pulled. They weren't a bad tank by any means, but they didn't have the skill you would expect from someone with that gear. We felt the logs adequately explained the situation.
You don't need to be a very experienced tank to take aggro. It's literally spamming the same aoe you already should be. If they die as a result of those extra mobs, that's on the DPS pulling more, especially if they already asked someone not to pull for them. Even if they didn't out of nerves, I'd likely tell the DPS to not pull for them myself.

My response was more referring to players who deliberately let someone die because of the aforementioned principle nonsense. It creates far more of a hassle than simply picking up the mobs and either asking the person to not pull ahead of them or kicking them if they continue to do so.