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Mega Gun Drak RunPosted by MuhneyFebruary 6, 2010 at 10:42 am
Well after the 122838 runs in Gun Drak, Violet Hold, and a myriad of others... We have a new 80 Death Knight.
Hats of and Kudo's to the Team last night that stayed together to get Konstinten into Heroic instances... Thanks to Alistarr ( Tank Extraordinaire !) Aravstia ( The roaming Paladin ) & Ailynvel ( Heal the Tank Heal the Tank ) from This Took Forever, our Alliance Guild. Monster in our midstPosted by MuhneyFebruary 5, 2010 at 7:29 am
As a word of advice to all, never ever tell our newest 80 that he can not do something. Yes Orochiimaru aka
I have learned from just one brief encounter that this little Gnomie is on a mission... Konstinten... is quickly on his trail to king to the 80 level... believe it would happen except Snowboarding with females is much higher on the priority list...so many choices to make ...so little time to make them Peace The Core EquationPosted by MuhneyJanuary 28, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I have seen since the release of the dungeon finder ( which i love ) seen a recent attack on Tanks. Ya know what I am fed up with it.. It isn't always the Tanks fault, speaking from a life as a Tank during Vanilla Wow, I found this article on WoW.com... to me it says " Hey learn how to play the game and quit whining"...
The Core Equation The amount of threat that a tank can generate depends on gear, talents, and skill. It also varies based on the number of mobs, the kind of mobs, and to some extent on what the rest of the group is doing . DPS threat is similarly based on gear, talents, and skill. However, any DPSer can always do zero threat by not attacking. In other words, we DPSers have little control over our tank and how much threat he generates, but we have complete and total control over how much threat we generate. Losing aggro is not something the tank does, it's something we do to the tank. Bad Tanks Are Bad Without question there are bad tanks out there. Lot's of them in fact, even some that aren't death knights. There are tanks that do far, far less threat than they should be doing. And if we're good players, that forces us to do far, far less DPS than we could be doing. If we're bad players that means that we'll be pulling aggro constantly. Once you realize you have a bad tank, here are your options:
There are certainly exceedingly rare occasions when I'd judge it okay to pull aggro, although I can only think of two.
Let me be clear here that I hate bad tanks just as much as you do. I spend a lot of time honing my DPS skills and working to do as much damage as possible. It's immensely frustrating to have to curb my death dealing ways because of someone who doesn't even appear to be trying. And like you, I have on occasion just gone ahead and went all out on a mob I knew I could burn down before it reached me. I feel dirty every time I do it, because it goes against the first tenant of being a good DPSer: never pull aggro. In the end a tank who can't generate much threat is usually a bad tank. But a DPSer who consistently pulls aggro is also a bad DPSer. Again, tanks don't just lose aggro -- DPSers take it from them. Every time I'm in a PUG with a DPSer who pulls aggro every other pull and then yells at the tank, I throw up a little in my soul. So before you accuse someone of being a bad player, first take an honest look at yourself and make sure you aren't one too. Page 1
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