Anub’arak boss fight ye.
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Lmfao! 
Let me repeat that:
Laugh my f****ing tuchus off
If you wanna be that serious you don’t run PuGs. This whimsical post is a PuG complaint, otherwise OP is a useless tool for not whining to his static(s) healers.
That’s because any PuG tank worth his salt knows when to roll defensives properly, and NOT to rely fully on a healer. Some like to get carried and complain a lot, for example, on the forums.
Seriously. We’ve like at least 2-4 dmg reduction CDs on 1-4 min cd, varying on class, to roll on this boss. You can’t have used them all up before EDNA even uses her tankbuster.
tank can absorb 1 spike as it spawns, makes healing much more bearable.
i think you are doing it wrong pal.
I just hopped on my tank and pressed w to time a +7 without tanking +2s or stuff like that.
timer has enough leeway to be short or above % and then next time you can adjust your route.
if you fancy copy pasta the route from rio page and put in your dungeon tool.
pretty much nothing will blast you 100-0 in those mid keys, so you can learn your def cd patterns without reading a book.
do i waste another dr there as the healer refuses to use the debuff dr properly too?
uhh…yes. But as you go higher the timer gets tighter. I don’t know what this is meant to prove
It’s definitely a tool that a lot of players forget exists. Its not perfect by any stretch, but that won’t matter if it doesn’t get so much as a glance.
the dispell has nothing to do with soaking one spike
it is about the heavy aoe dot if you let all spikes blow up at the same time
you will never jump straight into a +14. so it is pointless to read 5h a guide so you can run a +5 if you are not a complete failure.
so you will learn all the stuff in mid keys without really killing the key.
imagine studying 2h a perfect route for a +7 key when you can just copy pasta the route from raider io or just press w and adjust on the fly to learn for higher dungeons.
i rather play than reading a book about dungeon mechanics.
also you can play healer once in a while. they put the dispel mechanic 1sec after all spikes blow up. it such a great timing.
regardless it still has to be dispelled correctly.
i wasnt talking about +7s or +5s and i make my own routes.
I mean you hide on an alt, what keys are you doing that you think it doesn’t matter?
If every single healer shows the same effort as you, every single healer will fail the dispel. We don’t play with the same people, so realistically we can always have a healer that doesn’t know.
If a healer refuses to do his job, so will i. I’ll make sure i don’t keep aggro, use drs, have correct count. I’ll point frontals at the party. Sounds stupid doesn’t it?
You play how you want, i just wish there was a way to avoid people like you.
i am not hiding on anything, i cannot switch my character because the forum is broken as always.
i am always doing 110% effort because you always have 1-2 potatoe dps players and as a healer you have to make up for their slack
i also wish i can avoid playing with people that think this game is so hard that you have to read a book for 8h first to be good enough to complete low keys lol.
you lack basic skill if you need to practice your routes so long.
I just do not need that. so you are just wrong to tell people to read a book first
I was a bit flabberghasted to see A LOT of healers on 10s and above still not being aware of how to properly dispel this mechanic. One run I even got insulted by a healer when I tried to explain the dispel mechanic to him because he always insta-dispelled it.
I told him he needs to dispel the debuff shortly before the next tankbuster hits instead of dispelling it right away as it grants the tank 50% damage reduction for a few seconds.
He then continued by calling me out because and I quote: “It grants a shield, not damage reduction… you don’t even know tank mechanics here”. I assume he said that because it has “shield” in its name but he never bothered to read the actual tooltip of it…
That being said, I wouldn’t be aware of that mechanic either if I hadn’t actually looked it up online. It’s working quite unintuitivley tbf since, as a healer, you’re basically used to dispel debuffs asap.
WoW in general has the issue that a lot of things have to be looked up through third pary sites/tools.
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Honestly, just spec for your 2x SotF (if guardian) in this dungeon specifically and rotate them with Barkskin inbtween.
You shouldn’t even feel the buster much and you can even trivialize it with IF + Regen on top of SotF.
Carry the bad healer instead of being carried. Win-win! 
Relying on others to follow tactics is not being carried. You got the first part right though - compensating for them not doing it is carrying them.
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There comes a key level where you can’t cooldown through taking 50% more damage than you should repeatedly. It probably doesn’t matter on the 4 you did though )or the 5 on your tank).
I think I didn’t know anything relevant in SV until I cleared +10.
I didn’t know about the debuff and my tank never died. I didn’t know you can take orbs at the second boss for more healing, I was just pumping heals out. I didn’t know about 3rd boss that the guy should be ranged kicked, I just healed through.
Actually I learned about the debuff at the last boss that you can cleanse it with the portal. I think I learned that around +7 or +8.
But let’s be honest, 99% of the healers you are going to play with, will never ever even just hear about this post here lol^^
good for you buddy
you must be real pro
Yeah… i have seen tanks get one shot by the tank buster on the first cast.
So, yes, healers can help, but tanks still need to pop a defensive on them. That should allow them to survive without the dispel. With the dispel, it’s gravy.
It’s worse than that. Not having an expected 50% reduction means you take 100% more damage than you should.
I have that anyways.
Stops working at 12. Tankbuster 1 shots you even with Barkskin active. You’d need at least 2 defensives up for every single tankbuster.
At some point every player in the group needs to play his part properly. You can’t compensate for everything.
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Dear Tank,
One of the reasons i went to Shadow priest is this post. You could inform healer about this dispell prior instead of QQ . Healers are having much things to handle currently.
While I completely agree with this, you also have to be fair and keep in mind that this more of a healer mechanic than it is a tank mechanic. (I’m saying that as someone who’s tanking and healing at the same key levels).
A tank literally has no control over this mechanic at all. He can just blow several def CDs (if available) at once (in higher keys) within a split second when he notices that the healer doesn’t dispel it properly.
So yes, a tank who actually knows how to properly dispel this should inform their healers (I tried and got QQ back for it).
I started this season as a tank and knew how to dispel this because I got trucked by the boss and wanted to know why so I decided to look it up.
From then on, I asked every single healer if they’d knew how to dispel the mechanic of the first boss properly.
Some answered with no - I explained it to them and some answered with yes.
Of those who answered with yes, some actually knew it and some didn’t know it but still assumed to know it.
Those who assumed to know it were adamant about me being wrong and a sh*t tank.
So I’d say it goes both ways.
Do we also have to do that about the dispells at the last boss in Siege? Or at the first packs of SV? Or …
We can’t go over all the mechanics, and during the fight people don’t seem to read the chat either (rightfully so, I may add).
At a given point it’s expected that people know their stuff. That dispell at the first boss…is one of those things. One boss where dispelling is different; just remember that. It ain’t hard, just gotta keep an eye out for the smash and dispell right before that.
And I say this as someone who mostly healed.