Did I ever mention how much I HATE bad tanks? I’m not talking about the ones who can’t hold aggro against a DPS that does crit after crit and pulls the mobs off the tank. I’m talking about the “oh btw, I like to chain pull” and then charges in, pulling a dozen or more elites in a heroic, then blames the healer or the rest of the party when we all wipe.
Last night, Theshat and I were in a random heroic, and wound up in Utgarde Keep
. Right after all the buffs were distributed and we all fed on a lovely [Recipe: Fish Feast], the tank, who had something like 56,000 HP and a gear score of well over 5800, announced “Fair warning, I like to chain pull this place”, and before we could say anything, he proceded to charge in and pull every single mob in the hallway..ALL OF THEM. As we’re trying our damnedest to DPS them all down, of course, we each pull a few off of him and we all end up wiping. Oh and did I mention he was a Death Knight? So, after we wipe, he doesn’t apologize, he just said “sigh..I guess normal way then”. And after we again all buff up, he starts pulling, and before we even finish the current batch of mobs, he runs ahead to the next batch, leaving us all behind, the healer frantically trying to keep us all healed AND HIM AS WELL, as we’re getting damage because he stopped tanking the group and is working on the next group already, out of the healer’s range. Then, as we’re trying to DPS things down, he keeps running ahead to pull even more, taking the mobs with him that we’re trying to kill, pulling them out of the range of us casters who have to stand still to cast. To top things off, he kept on /tapping his foot at us for being “too slow”. Yeah, I couldn’t wait for that one to be done to get away from that clown.
The other kind of tank I really hate is the “hostage” tank. We’re in ToC heroic 5 man, about to work on The Black Knight, when the tank suddenly announces “Roll greed on the [Frozen Orb] or I let you all die.” He refuses to pull until some of us say yes. Then of course, once the fight is done, we’re all waiting for the roll to see what he does. He didn’t roll,waiting for all of us. So, I figured “hell, I never agreed”, and rolled need. We all knew he had every intention of rolling need on the orb. Everyone rolled need too, so he got pissed and left (and of course, he didn’t win the orb). I’m so glad that 3.3.3 will change that to greed only.
The last kind of tank I can do without, is the ones who when we’re about to go up against a final boss, doesn’t check to make sure everyone is ready. We were in Azjol-Nerub
, about to go up against Anub'arak. I hadn’t crossed over into the platform yet, as I was about 1 seconds behind everyone else. The tank charges, and the wall goes up, separating me from the rest of the group. So, they have to 4 man the boss, and the healer has the balls to call me a noob. If the fucking tank would have waited one more second, I would have been on the platform and ready to fight, but no, the tank had to be in a rush and not ask if we’re all set.
Ok, rant over. Overall though, we ended up running 7 dungeons yesterday and 4 on Saturday, totaling 11 on the weekend. Not bad overall.
/logout