Tanking Frustration: I blame WoW

[zaviermhigo]

Sometimes "poking stuff" is the same as threat management. Some of mini/bosses in this game tell you as such. I know for one, the sunken temple mini boss - Temple Guardians is very hard without proper threat management as he resets his threat every so often AS WELL AS being resistant to threat skills like Flash/Provoke.

What I meant is take the time out of poking stuff to actually look at your hate, I'm not talking about bosses resetting hate, I'm talking about full boar spammers who face roll in the first 5 secs. Like they can't be bothered to look at anything else besides there abilities they are pressing. I've played dd and healer, as a healer I have to zoom out more to see the attacks and everyone on my screen just in case, I see a lot of stupid ass dd mistakes that way. I can tell who messed up and why a lot of time, just look at the actions people are pressing on the party list. The fact of the matter is, most of the time bad dds are too preoccupied just facerolling to even move out of attacks or watch hate. Hates really only a problem in the first 10-15 secs of battling mobs. Raid Awareness just isn't strong with the dds in this community. Not saying I haven't had good dds, just when I do I appreciate them more, cause 80% of them are terrible. I played 1.0 also, and XI, and in both of those games it wasn't hard to be a dd, it just took better gear, some dds in xi were like 5-10 macros at max. But in xiv arr, you need to know your class more, know what each ability does, know when to use one, a lot of dds aren't taking the time to actually learn to play their classes. I don't know if I blame them since you can spam to 50 in two days if you're dedicated enough with fates.