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Re: Tank support group - 2011-03-28

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From: Urbin
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
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