As a tank, I apologize to the dead dps I didn’t frantcially keep aggro off of each and every time we res them. I don’t /dance on their corpses in public, though the healer and I might be snickering to one another in tells. Usually after a few deaths they finally start opening up on the MOB I MARKED WITH A SKULL and only after I GET IN MELEE RANGE of it. Other times they quit and we replace them in zero point zero zero five seconds with someone who has a clue.

As a melee DPS I have to note that it’s hard to keep high on the meters with a tank who is ueber. They push the pace, we still have to hold a moment as they race in, and stuff is dead sometimes faster than we can switch targets. Which is all ok till the tank then razzes us for being fail dps at a gear score 2k lower than his whlie obeying the rules about what we can hit.

Sigh

I was in Gundrak a while back on my paladin, chain pulling non stop because that’s just my style of tanking, I’ll move as fast as the healer can keep up adjusting my pace to that of theirs and in this case the group was capable and willing to move at a lightning pace, so we ended up clearing first boss to last minus Eck in 10 minutes. We skipped Eck because as I was running from Moorabi to Eck the healer started yelling “no not that way” “no eck” I asked “Why? He’s easy as hell.” the reply I got was “I don’t have time”… uh…. I replied “if you don’t have time you shouldn’t be running a dungeon” and the response I got was “well with your gear score you don’t need the extra emblem”.. again, uh.. yeah I still needed 2 items for my tank set from emblems but whatever I skipped the boss. But that kind of attitude just royally pisses me off, I have no trouble what so ever skipping whatever the majority of the GROUP decides they want to skip, whether or not I need the emblems, but you do NOT queue up for a god damn dungeon if you don’t have the time to run the whole thing, if you don’t have the time then you’re wasting everyone elses time by being there.

I was healing on my shaman the night before that, and I got a warrior tank that went pretty slow, and it took us about 30 minutes to do Heroic Utgarde Keep. I’m fairly certain had that healer got THAT tank, rather then me, he would have had those 30 minutes to spare to get his precious frost emblems and if not he would have (at the time) had a nice long 15 minute long wait until he could get into a different group to start all over. We cleared Gundrak in 10, don’t come at me with that “I don’t have time” bullshit.

You’re going to need a bigger hammer.
.-= wavemancali´s last blog ..False Expectations =-.

If you’re not a hunter, the reason you’d want to do this is to make targeting the tanks target an easy task. Click the focus portrait, and hit T. This will target your target’s target (default keyboard bindings) – aka you’ve clicked the tanks portrait so now you’re targeting him. Hitting T at this point will target whatever the tank is targeting. I use this all the time with my fury warrior, who steals aggro just by looking at enemies.

Even better, create the following macro and assign a button on your task bar for it. “/target focustarget” (without quotes). That way all you have to do is click the button once you’ve assigned a focus target at the beginning of a pug/raid. With that focus assigned, hitting the macro button will immediately make your character focus on the tank’s current opponent.

Finally, last night I was in a pug with my 73 DK and just happened to get an 80 warrior for a tank. He wasn’t the world’s fastest tank but he wasn’t slow either. I was content to have a level 80 tank that it would be impossible for me to steal aggro from. But some impatient DPSer kept urging him on, including the tired “GOGOGO”. Just STFU and be grateful we have an overgeared, overleveled tank you impatient tool!