r/classicwow • u/chefboar7 • 2d ago

Classic 20th Anniversary Realms From: Tank, To: DPS

You go at my pace. When you get into my group and start telling me that you are gonna AOE everything down. When I tell you to let me get hits in before you unleash every cooldown on your hotbar. You when give me shit for telling you to sit and let me pull mobs into the previous room. You're gone. Y'all are a dime a dozen. I may love to tank but when you literally ignore the mechanics of the game to get your min/max on you're making the game not fun for me or the healer.

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u/quidPROquo17 2d ago

I will say though, obv its your group and you can do what you want but when i tank i swear i dont have any of the problems people say they have. Especially when we are all the same gear level. Maybe you should learn to adapt and up your own play so people can play as they want? No tank can hold agro vs a mage insta pressing blizz but anything aside from that you should be good, or at least i am. Im engi with mining, if i make a huge pull i throw a dynamite with charge sweeping-ww- cleaving/ demo shout. I never lose agro. Sometimes one will go by me but thats fine. At the end of pulls i pool rage so i can do the next pack easily. Imo your kinda being a bully to not want to change your playstyle for the good of the many, unless they are being ridiculous and pulling w/o mana or when you ask them not to for w/e reason. Isk whats happening in your groups so this might not apply. (Its christmas so lets be nice to me) 😭🙏❤️

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u/coblenski2 2d ago

for real, it does seem like a lot of tanks are overly cautious and don't trust themselves. if you're deep prot you can easily hold threat on three+ mobs without even using engi or anything like that, which you should really be using anyway. taunt one, concuss one, then you got 2 more globals of sunder on a third mob before the taunt wears off. if there are more than three mobs either they are weak and can be AOEd or you can CC them.

I'm going healer for the first time this go around and I'm noticing tanks being sooo cautious, like ranged pulling each individual mob in RFK even when there's no real danger. I'm not saying anything though most of the time because it's their character and I'd rather that than a gung ho one who gets us all killed