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Article #341019Re: Tank support group - 2011-03-28
From: Ashen Shugar
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:06
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:06
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On Mar 29, 8:18 am, 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. > > Cheers > Urbin > You can't get dual spec yet can you? 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. ; ) -- Ashen Shugar
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