Yes. Another one. This time from the perspective of a Tank.
I do quite like getting a thirty minute Deserter debuff because some healer was having an anxiety attack because I wasn’t following his “Most optimal route” in Dire Maul.
No I don’t care that I can jump down into the garden, and it’s better to clear out the walkway otherwise a tree armada comes in and kills you after Hydrospawn/Satyr boss. At least, as far as I know, not sure if that has been fixed.
A tank sets the pace. If I so choose I can go and slowly pace and smell the flowers if I so desire. Well I won’t do that, but I am getting progressively more vindictive towards pugs as a whole.
And you can most likely guarantee these people will then go do their M+ and then start complaining that there are no tanks. Well gee, maybe they’re not around because you push them away. They got tired of being abused and decided to just go be DPS.
I love seeing them squirm here on the forums. It’s literally the consequences of their own behaviour and it’s glorious to see.
“Where’s all the tanks”. “Why do i wait so long for invites”. “A mythic+ queue will fix everything, even though i waited 2 hours for a group i will kick the tank at the first deviation from perfection” xD
Toxic people really need to stop the random kicking and think about what they are doing. It’s the tanks that decide the route, it has always been and always will be, this way. If the rest of the group disagrees or have something else to say, then you embrace diplomacy and write your thoughts while being friendly about it. People shouldn’t be punished over someone’s egoism being threatened.
I’ve said it before on these forums, which applies to real life as well: Being friendly, understanding, polite, kind and patient will get you much further than being the opposite. You only lose by being unfriendly.
Fun fact: on my horde character today in a timewalking dungeon I had more civilized interaction with a tank that didnt know the way then in 2 years of playing Alliance.
DPS forget this lol… But same dunegon yesterday the tank wanted to do it proper I didn’t have the time or want to do it (hate them 2 dungeons lol) so I left. If you don’t like the tank pulling slow or doing it proper then YOU can leave.
Kicking is being abused most times it pops up before I can read who is getting voted its already done…
When I tank TWW I ask the healer if they can do big pulls, if silence I pull big and if they struggle I back it off next pulls.
I mean it sure contributes, but its much more like the consequence of blizzard’s old new tank design which we try every expansion only to see it flop so hard that by season 2 it fully disappears.
And the threat nerf is not even mentioned here which is just yet another annoyance a tank now constantly will have to deal with (especially with something like retri dps). It was already there in SL and got very swiftly revered but apparently blizzard needed a round 2 of it.
This, in addition to the their timer design that basically makes pulling 3 packs absolutely necessary in many cases…
Needless to say, currently tanking can be pretty reprehensible in general, especially when you can just go dps and let anyone else bother with it.
idc about tank changes, its more than playable even in a pug (only played bear/pala). It’s other people that make keys exhausting.
I did a single 12 (it was easy af) just haven’t done anything but weekly since lol. I burn out every single season long before i want to stop pushing, if i had a group i would go for title every season. But had a bad experience with one before so stay pug.
What really gets me is if you decide to go the fastest route, but you’re not confident in your tanking abilities and take 1 or maybe 2 packs at a time, majority of the time as i’ve seen it, the healer will start pulling for you. IF the healer can keep you alive then sure, go for it but that has been extremely rare.
The absolute impatience in queued dungeons has been increasing more and more. Now you can get kicked by not skipping ONE single mob. If you take 5 sec too long in anything, its either someone throwing a tantrum, you get kicked or even both.
I see, but the tank exodus literally happened at the same time as the tank nerfs.
Clearly most tanks would simply rather play dps or tank their own key, hence the long queue times.
Its objectively easier to perform dps role than tank role and its not even close.
Ppl behaved pretty much the same way even back in SL and in DF as well.
Yeah but i think it’s just exposed the issue even more. Tanks nerfs and CC changes have just made it harder. No free ride. If you don’t DR a tankbuster you should die, before you were invincible
But its still a community problem. DPS with garbage attitudes expecting perfection when you get to watch them fail over and over and dying with DRs up etc. Yet you make even a single mistake it’s the end of the world