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By: Digital

Digital — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:06:55 +0000

“I’m okay carrying dps”

I’m sick to death of this.

Tank messes up, there is hell to pay. You gear up in nomrals, get your def cap, THEN think about tanking.
Healer messes up, there is hell to pay. If you can’t keep a group up through AoE insanity with them paying no attention to environmental damage, that’s your problem.

DPS can’t do their job, awww, it’s okay, lets coddle them. They’re trying so hard after all… what with their standing there staring at the fight like they have to make sense of the pretty flashing lights on the screen. And if they do manage to do decent damage, that somehow exempts them from the rules of running in a group and they are entitled to start pulling and randomly attacking whatever they bloody feel like.

Screw that.

Make a short-bus random option or something. If my DPS can not do 2k+, can’t manage their mana to last more then 1 fight, and can’t do it with a smile and a kind word, I have no use for them.

This is why there is a tank shortage in WoW. We’re sick of being the ‘daddy’ of a group of idiot children.

I only regret my ignore list is limited.

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:33:06 +0000

@Rilgon Arcsinh: Honestly, I hit a streak where I got Oculus about 4 times. I don’t mind staying in and doing it if the whole group stays. It’s when other players start dropping and cycling out that really annoys me.

That and the one time I had a bear tank who absolutely insisted on skinning every. freaking. drake. in the instance. I left on that one too.

As far as being most fun, that’s entirely subjective. From my standpoint, I have more fun in Halls of Lightning and Old Kingdom.

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:15:32 +0000

Unless it’s Oculus.

That’s where I draw the line.

Which, considering it’s the easiest, one of the fastest, and the most fun heroic in Wrath, is mind-boggling.

By: Starets Sayas

Starets Sayas — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:26:22 +0000

Maybe I’m one of those in the tier 9s. The problem is I can’t always carry them. There are tanks that simply go down faster than I can keep them up. Then also as a discipline priest if there is aoe damage going on, I don’t have that many tools (that I’m aware of anyway) to deal with it. I prioritize and try to keep up those that I hope will keep us from a complete wipe, but its not pretty.

When the dungeon finder first started, evidently there were a lot of powerful toons signing up and it was great. But evidently a lot of those toons are back to guild runs or something. Because the last few days, it seems like I’m being asked to carry more and more groups. I’m not always up to the task.
.-= Starets Sayas´s last blog ..New Must Read for Me =-.

By: Lume

Lume — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:08:17 +0000

“Unless it’s Oculus.”

Just had a guy earlier today ask “You guys haven’t done this before?” Acting as though he was the expert, despite the fact that he kept dismounting before we were finished killing blue drakes, and he kept going the wrong way.

When we got to the last boss, I purposefully did very little damage so he could keep threat initially. But after doing one ultimate rotation peeled. After peeling, he failed to use the damage redirection ultimate and evasive abilities. So I just huddled down on one of the islands expecting my drake to die. But a person from my guild on the green drake kept me alive before he went into the kiting phase (luckily).

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:39:45 +0000

I'm a tank and I don't mind carrying a group provided it looks like they're putting *some* kind of effort into the run. Just any kind of sign that you're trying, that's all I ask. .-= Rhidach´s last blog ..My WoW year in review =-.

By: Nettles

Nettles — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:27:43 +0000

I thought I could do this in pugs too. I worked for my epic gear and it’s nice to help people out who may just be getting back into the game.

BUT but.. they have to show they’ve made an effort to upgrade their own gear too. I was healing for a decent group in which the tank was woefully undergeared. When I took a look at his gear after a couple of wipes on trash pulls, I was shocked.

When someone expects to tank heroic instances at lvl 80 and hasn’t even done basic questlines to upgrade lvl 60 gear? I draw the line.

By: Lilitharien

Lilitharien — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:18:21 +0000

The one time I got a random tank in Blues and Greens was in Oculus. Just my luck, right? It didn’t end well, I ended up leaving the group.
.-= Lilitharien´s last blog ..How to Pick the Healing Corps that will Keep Your Raid Alive =-.

By: Tankette

Tankette — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:01:20 +0000

The runs with crittable tanks are fun and keep me awake. I ran one where the Ret Pally pulled aggro and basically tanked every boss fight. He was so over geared that he couldn’t help it with the tank not putting out much threat. He wasn’t particularly hard to keep alive either. I think on most heroics I could just get a dps Pally , DK or Warrior to tank and have 4 dps.