🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:45:59 +0100, Steve Kaye wrote:
>  On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:20:25 -0500, "Shiflet" <rshi...@charter.net>
>  wrote:
> 
> >
> >"Villy Vonka" <ne...@villyvonka.co.uk> wrote in message 
> >news:e878f891-b32f-4a68-aad8-5b5c8b255c69@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >> We need to be nice to tanks.
> >
> >I hear this a lot, but in all my dungeon runs, I've met a LOT more tanks who 
> >just act like they're the be all, end all, god's gift to gaming than I have 
> >people who gave a tank shit unless the "tank" really was some tool in ret 
> >gear and ret spec(or fury, or w/e) who only queued as tank to get in faster. 
> 
>  The problem is that people tend to remember the bad times and so it
>  seems like they happen more frequently than they actually do.
> 
>  I tried to get into tanking late in Wrath but I often got grief for
>  being undergeared.  That happened probably 15-20% of the time but it
>  seemed to be a lot more and I got to the point where I was dreading
>  every run because that one might be the one where I get grief.  So I
>  stopped tanking.
> 
>  The point being that even if a fairly low percentage of runs end up
>  bad with the tank getting grief for things that aren't their fault
>  then they will get discouraged.  If it happens with any regularity
>  then the next run could be the bad one and so they might choose not to
>  run it.

The fear of that was why I never tried healing on my priest. By the time I
would have tried, everyone else would have been overgeared for a long time.

Levelling up a new healer and two new tanks will at least mean that I am
familiar with the mechanics, even if I will still be behind the gearing
curve by the time I reach max level.

Still, so far the stress level in leveling PUGs has been very low. If it
stays that way I will be happy to tank and heal endgame pugs (come the time
I'm ready for them :-)

Cheers
Urbin

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