Sadly chiming in with another horrible dungeon experience story. Just hit level 80 with my druid yesterday and have been running heroics, mostly not struggling. However, just had my worst dungeon experience in recent memory.
I zone in and the 583 Blood DK tank has already pulled 3 packs around the corner before I finish loading. I run to catch up and am greeted by an Earthshatter from one of the Swarmguards that punts me back 100 feet aggroing a Herald of Ansurek. I run to catch up again and the tank has pulled 2 more packs including more Swarmguards that again target me with an earthshatter punting me back further. 2 DPS have died as I try to get back in range before I too am killed as the DPS and tank have killed 2-3 mobs and thus ran ahead to the pack right before the first boss.
I die again as I’m bombarded with interrupts and stuns that keep me helplessly standing in AOE and another earthshatter. I try running back again before concluding that I’m not going to be able to run this dungeon with this tank and figuring the DPS feel the same submit a vote to kick on the tank, but its prevented by another vote to kick as I see a loading screen and in fact I got kicked and have a 30 minute deserter debuff.
Could I have done better? Maybe? All I know is that its a week into the expansion and healing has just been the worst.
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Typically in wipe situations everyone could have done better.
But no, if they tank was pulling rooms full of mobs without being able to stack them and everyone in the group had aggro, he was either bad, or the DPS didn’t give him time to LoS and stack them, or both.
There is clearly an issue with horrible tanks thinking they can pull the world in heroic dungeons atm. I see it constantly and every time I see it I just leave, I am not farming infinite repair bills because of ape brain tanks.
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Pull more, teach them they have limits
I zoned into a dungeon in progress and was immediately whispered a torrent of abuse, followed by “Oh sorry, that was meant for the healer before you, we kicked him”. I’m glad this is just an alt and that I’m comfortable/familiar with healing on this and with the game in general. I would not like to be a new player, learning a spec and getting to know the game on a healer main.
That unfortunately sounds like a tank I’ve run with. Some are great, some are horrible, you did nothing wrong!
I just don’t feel like running with this tank because they know how to survive well, but not tank. I ALWAYS pull threat off of them, so I have to hold back or risk dying, trash or bosses. Dead DPS on a boss is not good.
Though pulling more, even if you die, does sound like a fun, sadistic plan! (I have done that before!)
Git gud. Maybe healing isn’t for you? It’s the groups job to keep up with the tank.
“Another” ? it’s been quite chill for me.
I’ve done at least a dozen heroics yesterday and the worst I’ve seen all expansion is one player saying “sigh, is one good heroic too much to ask for” and someone else asking him to relax. That was the worst i’ve seen so far.
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How? I wanna know how it takes some people FOREVER to load into a dungeon. Is it a computer thing or like a game bug or what? Everyone has to push the button to accept the queue and idk how many times I’ve seen it take someone like a minute to get into the dungeon or even more.
9 times out of 10 it’s quick, sometimes it just hangs up, /shrug.
My husband and I have the same internet connection, similar computers, sit next to each other. Takes me twice as long to load in anything compared to him.
It’s not just loading. People have actual quests related to dungeons, want to loot mobs because of materials/quest items, etc.
Tanks are forcing people to rush past everything.
They really didn’t nerf tanks enough.
Tanks need to get insta-gibbed if they pull more than two packs without healer externals.
Only way too learn anything from these dungwons and how too play your spec correctly is too pull large and see if you can deal with the situation.
Sometimes ye can sometimes ye cant. Either way i would 100% prefer tanks too pull massive in these afk dungeon then 1 pack at a time.
HDD from 2017 represent! they never booted me yet.
I’m sorry for laughing but visualizing your experience was hilarious, especially cause I’ve experienced it.
I prefer that pulling though.