Everytime I try to tank Scarlet Monastery, I grow frustrated and have to log out from all the stress that some players give me.
I try to be a good tank, and maintain aggro, but it’s impossible. A few melee hunters in your group, they will go full zugzug mode at the start, warlock just casts rain of fire or a mage just casting blizzard or arcane explosion right at the very start.
You try to LoS a group of mobs, OOOPSIE the DPS already started to attack the mobs, QUICK go back to get aggro OH WAIT YOU’RE DAZED! Priest healer is bored while he does as much dps as the role, starts pulling the whole group, then is amazed when you can’t hold aggro for 10+ mobs.
Every single group I join, it’s like this… a clusterscrew of chaos, DPS just going full zugzugmode when you’re trying to LoS a pack behind a pillar to group them up… you can spam battleshout or try to get rage for thunderclap to generate threat, but you can’t. You’re then told to go 2h, and watch the healer not keep up with the damage of 10+ mobs attacking your a…
What the hell is this mentality? Is SoD infested with retail players that think tanking is as easy as retail?
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I mean, as long u have at least one mage in group there isnt any point to try and be “tank” your job is pretty much just pull a lot do a TC as war maybe a shout and thats it let mage nuke it down .
No reason to be stressed about this , its how game is working , u cant hold agro to mage doing 800+dps on aoe …
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this isn’t even with a mage…
It’s with melee hunters and priest pulling entire packs and dpsing them before I get the chance to pull first or the LoS them behind a pillar.
ANd yet everytime all these people are like “aggro aggro aggro” “aggro??? tank please hold aggro!!!”
So sick and tired of this crap
Even earlier a melee hunter was dpsing Herod through the whirlwind, then he wonders why he holds aggro when I stand out of the whirlwind.
Just how are there people not understanding how limited classic tanking is…
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Have u tried comunicating ? Like id someone goes unga bunga and then asks for aggro just tell then to at least wait till u can group/los mobs and press at least one spell on them .
Also, warr is in kinda rough spot rn, its better to run meele cleave and tank with 2h i would say
If the hunter will take agro, don’t bother with it. He has the tools to deal with that elite. Less dmg to you. Keep the healer safe (dmg should help with that too). You don’t have to have all the elites on you all the time. If someone is doing stupid things, let him die.
You will meet stupid people in every role. It is just easy to blame the tank or healer, so stupid DMG will do that to misdirect attention from their mistakes.
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I tank on paladin, so dont have this issue. Just pull a lot, then have hunter put down frost trap, and i kite around the trap and spam consecration and divine storm on cd.
I dont know how warriors get aoe threat, but you need to do that then kite. No healer kan keep you up with 10+ mobs on you, but get the kiting down and you can hold aggro on 20 while the dps nuke them down.
I tanked a lot of my 30-40 as two-handed paladin but with points in holy for the holy AoE ability for better threat.
It went well for the most part and if we overpulled and wipe… then they knew not to do that again.
Im tank. Dont stress about aggro, do what you can to keep mobs away from healer, thats all you have to do. Just try to tank as much as you can and that is it.
Dps that pull before you know exactly what they are doing and will never blame you for not holding aggro.
Taunt what you can and you will be fine trust me.
Even in raids when im pulling trash i dont really try to tank some loose mobs, i just sunder once or twice so healers dont get aggro and move to next pack.
Tanking is easy, no matter which game really.
Let the hunter die, they’ll learn eventually
I agree tanking is stressful and the worst part?
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/1artzjb/aggrend_clarifies_on_twitter_again_that_they_have/?rdt=55789
Are Blizzard insane? So Aggrend doesn’t want tanks to just aoe threat and just sit there all bundled up…Yet that is exactly what most dps classes are doing? If you saw SM there is a ton of spellcleave and meleecleave groups, yet Blizzard are refusing to give tanks proper aoe threat, yet giving some dps classes bonker aoe with rune abilities that even enhance this play… It’s a sad time to be a tank honestly I refuse to tank because all we will ever get is dps shouting at us for dying because we DON’T have aggro…I am dishearted when Blizzard don’t want us to aoe, want it to be challenging…Dunno what is so challenging on my lock tank when all I do is spam instant Searing Pain anyway…with intensity and a paladin’s aura I can just do hellfire anyway…This just ruins the whole point of tanking in the first place, what is so challenging trying to get aggro from a mage who will aoe, frost nova and kite around? xD
you should try healing, most groups are chain pullers, 2 handed tanks, dont look at healers mana, require you to heal perfectly and play mind chess with your own brain in order to feel the flow of each groups mana consumption per speed, kinda sucks
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Do players play smart? Do what you can to keep agro. If they’re dum dums… let them die. Only look out for healer. If it is a priest heal with prayer of mending, they secretly want you to lose agro of at least one mob for their prayer to ping pong. 
Also, most classes can tank a lil mob, so don’t worry. 
BTW in classic, tanks aren’t supposed to TBC-Pally-AOE-Spellcleave-pull 20 mobs. Players seem to forget that they are playing classic. They need that slap in the face.
Because those people play like that, the game doesn’t need to bow to them. Spellcleaves and meleecleaves will die out in the level 50’s eventually, where a single mob can kill them in 2 to 3 hits.
Go DW/2H. It shouldn’t be this way but its how it is at the moment.
Obviously you can strap on a shield the rare moment something actually hits you hard but least then the healer is just having to keep one member up as opposed to everyone when mobs get loose and ultimately, keeping them safe is prio over rest
Just go as Meele cleave, you don’t need an Tank for Dungeons
I get you 100%.
Don’t care for the it’s easy just go guild criers.
SM groups wait half an hour because they all can’t find a tank only to then ignore the mobs they pull and just add and die or as you said bomb and wonder why the shadowpriest that joined as a healer can’t keep up.
Even in gnome our MT has to constantly keep DPS in check, watching for Aggro or the complete lack of any requirements for cc has been missing from players, same as it’s seemingly now normal to let the healers top you off every time, no DPS has food maybe they brought drinks, but if there is no mage most of the time they just have nothing…
Having groups mana bars displayed also doesn’t exist anymore “no downtime” is the rule.
This is a player made problem and it’s gonna be worse in p4 when no one has the money or time to pull up a second char.