Tanking and Small Pulls

[Liam_Harper]

No rush for me.

I haven't really come across a truly slow tank very often. Some wall pull, some go pack by pack, but as long as the dps is semi-decent and the tank isn't afk'ing after each pull, you'll mow through fast enough.

It's only a problem for me if the tank is rude when the healer says they'd be happy to take more, or is stalling a lot.

[Naoki34]

What is the consensus when a tank does small pulls?

Picture it. Everyone loads in and say their preferred greetings. The tank runs out of the gate and pulls 2 tadpoles.

How do you react?

I quit, blacklisted him (to send him to learn how to play, I'll see him again in 200 blacklists) and restarted after a manga moment. It's not much, 30 minutes of waiting compared to the boredom it represents.

[EmpyreanHelios]

I quit, blacklisted him (to send him to learn how to play, I'll see him again in 200 blacklists) and restarted after a manga moment. It's not much, 30 minutes of waiting compared to the boredom it represents.

I'm not sure if you're serious, but thank you for the laugh either way.
When it's getting late and I'm not feeling it, leaving is definitely an option.

[Naoki34]

I'm not sure if you're serious, but thank you for the laugh either way.
When it's getting late and I'm not feeling it, leaving is definitely an option.

I'm serious.

[ItMe]

How do you react?

If I think their gear / skills seem up to it, I'll encourage them to try for a little more.
Otherwise it's whatever man. Sometimes you get a fast run and sometimes you don't. That's part of it being a roulette lol.

[Burmecia]

1) i'll let the tank do their job in manner that is agreeable to them
2) join in reporting anyone who is ass to the tank, they're ruining my stinking experience too with their running/recuing ahead and shittalking
3) if dungeons ends up taking 80min... reconsider if i wanna use duty finder tomorrow, can i trap some friends to run whatever i need to run with me
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0) if the tank gets kicked out i'll just leave myself too

[Casti_EL]

Having played all roles in dungeons for me it's usually leave the tank to run at their pace. Unless something is said at the start of a dungeon you don't know if the tank is new, inexperienced, nervous, etc. and people being nasty about it never helps anyone.

Personally I'm not a fan of tanking (least favorite role in the game), but I'll do it occasionally for levelling jobs and to help folks out - I'm a nervous tank so I don't tend to do big pulls until I'm comfortable with the dungeon and party setup. If the healer (and ONLY the healer) wants me to "pull big" I will do, but if they then get nasty after wiping then I'll just leave (no issue for me). Flip side, when I'm healing or DPS I'm fine with the Tank going at their own pace - if I didn't like a potentially long dungeon I wouldn't have queued or I would have used a pre-formed party rather than roulettes. If other folk get nasty with tanks (or healers for that matter) when there's no justification then I'll happily vote kick them.

[Lexis]

I've been doing a lot of leveling, going through MSQ on two characters, so the majority of tanks I encounter have been the single pulling kind. It doesn't bother me in the slightest, although wall 2 wall pulls tend to me more exciting, especially when I'm healing.

I've yet to spend more than 30 mins in a dungeon single pull runs can be pretty quick regardless with holy spam and some half decent DPS. I prefer a tank pull at the pace they are most comfortable with than try to wall 2 wall because it's 'what they're supposed to do' and give my poor whm bum a heart attack by failing to understand proper CD management.

[dangadget]

What is the consensus when a tank does small pulls?

Picture it. Everyone loads in and say their preferred greetings. The tank runs out of the gate and pulls 2 tadpoles.

How do you react?

I think to myself, "Good, they're checking to see if the healer and DPS are competent, and hopefully they'll ramp it up once they see that the group can handle it"
If after the 3rd pull, they're still going slow, I'll let them know that I think we're ok to do more, but I'm not going to make a fuss about it.
Also important to let them know that they don't have to go from "cautious pulls" to "balls-to-the-wall" pulls.
If they were doing one pack at a time, let's try two now, and so on, and so on

[Claire_Pendragon]

depends on what im playing as. do i have any AoEs yet? do i want the content over quickly, or do i just want a casual relaxing run?