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Article #341018Re: Tank support group - 2011-03-28
From: Urbin
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:15
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:15
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:06:21 -0700 (PDT), Ashen Shugar wrote: > On Mar 29, 8:18=A0am, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > > It had to happen sooner or later. I got into a BFD group, most others > > were between 22 and 24, me at 25, a rogue at 28. The rogue kept pulling > > on every pull. The little rage I saved from the last fight was wasted on > > trying to get aggro back again (for the first time I was forced to > > Sunder left and right). I /said to please let me do the pulling. No > > reaction in chat and he kept pulling on happily. A few groups later I > > /said "Funski, would you mind letting me pull, you're making my life > > harder than necessary". No reaction. On the next pull I sit down, when > > the mobs are dead I try to kick him but he pulls the next group before > > that works. I say one last time that as a tank I'd prefer to do the > > pulling even if he is high enough level to tank trash pulls. No > > reaction. We enter the orc bosses room. I again try to initiate a kick > > but don't manage to do so before he pulls the boss and the adds. I sit > > down to watch things. The healer is up to speed and keeps everyone > > alive, the rogue easily holds aggro of the boss, the adds wander all > > over and hit everyone at will. The mob dies, I loot and finally I manage > > to initiate a kick. I give "after asking three times he is still > > pulling" as reason. The vote fails. The healer says: "Don't kick my > > Funski". Only then do I realise three of them are form the same guild. > > They start pulling the mobs by using the braziers at which point I had > > enough and left. > > > > Sadly, I couldn't teleport out during combat so I'll need to hand in the > > three quests the next time I pull BFD. > > > > I wonder if such people keep consta-pulling so the group is never out of > > combat long enough for a vote to kick. > > > > Oh well, I'm sure I'm on their shit list, they surely are on mine. > > > > Rant over. > > You can't get dual spec yet can you? I believe that is still only available at 40, isn't it? > Still, change to battle stance, rend, overpower when available, slam > perhaps or whatever really. Just make sure you're only hitting the > rogues target and let the rogue do all the tanking (so no thunderclaps). > Call the rogue a n00b tank if they don't keep all the mobs off the > healer. I could have done that, but based on the lack of response to my earlier requests to let me pull I doubt it would have made much of an impression... Cheers Urbin -- Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (70), Mage | Greeta (64), Rogue Mymule (81), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin Sunh (80), Priest | Taalas (78), Shaman | Vargal (26), Warrior
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft Subject: Re: Tank support group - 2011-03-28 Date: 30 Mar 2011 07:15:20 GMT Lines: 54 Message-ID: <slrnip5m48.61n.urbin@stinky-local.trash.net> References: <slrnip1upt.2je.urbin@stinky-local.trash.net> <65075fb9-331d-4cc2-9b66-70b5142b2247@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net VFXeWAC4My/FPzuc+iUbQQFEeGhQw14JrIv4/fqbaXguTXpHwx Cancel-Lock: sha1:sAqzdM3aw4W9bzzZHVDl5qH7P/c= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (SunOS) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit