Tanking Frustration: I blame WoW

[Kuvu]

you're not spamming flash enough

bind a sign for kill target

if they still pulling after that hope they have fun tanking

Doesn't matter how much you spam flash in the start, for me its a 2.5 second refresh, and it takes at least 2 to set agro sometimes 3 depending on how stupid the dps are. I tell lancers and archers to count to 6 when i pull to let me get hate on the target and it seems to work for the most part. Dps are idiots, they don't wait for anything they see mobs they start firing or better yet archers see more then one mob,,,, omg i MUST use aoe attack no matter what.

Think its bad now just wait till the meters come out and its going to be pure hell for tanks. Sometimes i just let the dps with agro die a few times and they get the message. I saw a lot of this in mid 30 to early 40 ish but its not so bad now but hell even in HM ifriti i engage him and dps goes bat shit, its not really an issue for me but i feel sorry for the warrior and they do that, i have to provoke the mob get it on me so they can get agro set to take it off me. Its ridicules,

Read the top post on page 5 of this thread. That is how provoke works.

It matches your current threat to the threat of the person who currently has highest plus 1 point of threat/damage. Provoke will turn a mob to you, but will not hold it if he person who had threat performs any action and you do not. Provoke doesn't really earn any threat, it just matches your threat to the highest in the group. So if you currently have threat and use Provoke, it won't do anything except go on cool down. Similarly, if you use it when you do not have threat, it will pullt he mob too you, but it is up to you to continue to earn more threat per second than the person you pulled it off of.

Wrong and here is your sign, if a dps is getting beat on they need to stop dpsing (which they don't) and bring it to the tank or stand still. If the tank is doing all they can and there hate is maxed and the dps still pulls it off at times the dps needs to see that and slow the heck down, its not a race to kill mob but some of them don't see it like that.