W2W pulls or...?

[Alberio_SpearOfAura]

Since you said that it was your first run of a dungeon I get why you would feel a bit apprehensive to be doing larger pulls. A lot of people have already touched on the nuisances of of proper mitigation, it’s cooperative effort to clear a dungeon, how some jobs play awkwardly with fewer available mobs.

I tend to have a bit of tankiety in dungeons (I prefer raid/trial settings), I always make it an effort to first say that I”m new to tanking an instance, fortunately for me most people would be understanding. Sometimes its just the basic communication with the healer to see if they’re alright with larger pulls, other parts is understanding the toolkits of the other jobs in your party and what they have available at their current level.

On the matter of W2W, one of the benefits to it, aside from time, would be having the available mitigation. It’s better for cycling your defensive cooldowns. With mot cool downs ranging from 90 to 120sec, chances are if you pull pack by pack your cool downs wouldn’t be available by the next pack.

Something that I’ve been seeing with this expansion is that party mitigation plays a role such as DNC’s Samba. Then some tank skills that aren’t being used as often as they should such as Arm’s Length which applies a Slow Debuff to enemies. The fewer the hits, the less damage.

Playing it safe can only get you so far, sometimes you’d have to ask yourself “what more can I do” to create a better experience for yourself and the party you’re venturing with.

[KDSilver]

Does it matter if you W2W pull or not? I usually don't and a dps decided to go nuts and tell me how I'm wasting everyone's time because I don't do it on my first run of a dungeon (and the healer was struggling to heal the extra mobs that dps would pull over to me).

What are your thoughts?

Not against you or anyone who doesn't W2W at all.
But if you don't, i'll just leave. I have few time to do my roulette and such. So I like to go fast. If it won't, i'll just take the penalty and do something else more productive than single packs.
Besides, I hate single pack for my rotation/cooldown/ressources managment.
And I just find it extremely boring as well.

[velswen]

There's generally no reason not to try! If you're super low level and nobody has AoE it doesn't matter much, but once everyone has AoE, just try! It's WAY more fun for the healer and very satisfying for the DPS. If you die, that's okay! You never know until you try.

[EponaTBHSMH]

not doing W2W on a first dungeon run is perfectly reasonable

[Connor]

I wouldn’t call a tank out if they decided not to Wall to Wall pull, but as a healer I have to admit I let out a sigh when the tank does single pulls, because it leaves literally nothing for me to do except hit the same button for the vast majority of the dungeon.

[BigCheez]

not doing W2W on a first dungeon run is perfectly reasonable

Why? The trash pulls are the same in every dungeon.