I seen a levelling fury tank, but that guy was like level 18 so scaling was off somewhere near Mars, dude was doing more DPS than the rest of us and out healing the healer, which was me, at level 48 or something, it’s insane how bad things scale at lower levels.
lol - I just took deserter, with my level 53 Unholy DK in Necrotic Wake a couple of minutes ago… Because when I zoned in the Hunter said: “For quick leveling just stand here by the entrance for 5 minutes and the tank and I will just clear the dungeon”.
I queued up to run a normal instance with a “team”. Not to stand around for 5 minutes doing nothing, or to attempt to keep up while two geared max level chars flex their way through a speed run.
Rather take deserter and do pet battles for 30 minutes. It is pet battle week after all.
I’m sure they’ll pick up a DPS that will appreciate the carry. 
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Leveling tanks please go faster. I want to finish the dungeon and get my xp.
The “lol cry baby” speed racer tanks don’t seem to recognize or care that there are ppl out there that want to participate in GROUP content as a group, not get carried.
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I always think of my first introduction to speed running as a new player in Cataclysm… (I started at the end of WoTLK, and Cata heroics were my introduction to heroic dungeons.)
I zoned into Grim Batol on my Warrior. I immediately get a whisper from the healer: “Do you have any quests in here or need anything from this dungeon?” I whisper back that I am just running for Valor. At the same time I see the hunter whisper he’s only running for Valor in group chat.
The heals announces: “Please stay behind the tanks and in front of me. Don’t DPS until the tanks stop moving.”
At this I notice the tank and the “other” DPS are out of the starting area. I run into the first room to see one guy go left and one guy go right. The hunter DPS says “How retro, a full clear. :)”
They basically pull everything to the waiting dragons. I notice the heals is in Shadow, and the two DKs are in Blood. They are in the same guild. Stuff dies quick and we start the drake run. No trash survives the drake run… Straight run to the first boss. We run into the big room with the Forge Master. The DK’s pick up the first roving trogg pack, the two Dragonkin in the corner and the first trash pack. They setup up shop on the second big trash group and I see the Forge Master coming in… I say: “Boss Inc”… thinking these guys are good, but this won’t work.
Heals says - “You’ll be fine luv”.
We clear the boss, two trash packs and nuke everything to the final boss.
Final boss dies just as the purple swirl goes out. I’m the only guy that runs to the safe spot. lol.
DKs Drop - Heals thanks us. Gives me a whisper that I did great on the mechanics.
I looked them up online after the run. They were in one of the top 5 US Heroic 25 man guilds.
Unlike most carries today there were some differences that made it a pretty cool experience.
- Heals asked us two pick up DPS players if we needed anything. Implying they would help with quests or a boss kill if someone needed it.
- Heals set the expectations - Hey we are gonna do this as a team, this is your role.
- It was hella fun to watch. It’s always fun to see others play their classes to the fullest extent. Stuff died, heals were done, there were NO loose mobs running around.
- Yeah I didn’t contribute much, but I stepped out of Blitz, avoided the bad on Forge Master, and knew where to go on the last boss… and it was noticed.
Just a different time, different vibe.
Yeah people flex in runs today, but I personally haven’t seen a clean flex run like that one in any of the recent expansions.
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No one is “mystic” geared. That doesn’t exist.
What you mean mon?
I be pretty mystical all the time, so I be rockin’ mystic gear always!
Maybe you better choose a different Loa…
Just sayin’
Hey man, I can tell you dont do Mythics considering Mystic is not a difficulty level, though you probably just gave Blizz another idea.
TBH, no one is Mystic-geared - so…every tank should stop…right ?
Been retired almost as long as I served. Yes, I’m that old, still lean, still mean and still a Marine! Oorah!
Semper Fi! 
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Mean, mean people here… let em die. The rule of WOW… don’t stand in crap. Edit add: use to heal all the time… not anymore.
Standards, rules of the game … well look around your real life seem to have followed is here too.
(Preface, this is 100% sarcasm and not to be taken seriously)
The hell you say?
Do you see failure in this dungeon?
I swam all the way from Kalimdor for you to be a disappointment!
Where’s your receipt? I return you!
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Okay, serious face now. Tanks do need to keep pace with the healer. I’m also tired of dealing with tanks in levelling dungeons that act like it’s a Mythic 20+ and expect maximum optimization on the route, pull everything in sight and then get mad when they inevitably die because the healer can’t keep up.
My first pulls are to find the healers good zone, the DPSs zone, and my own.
Where those three circles overlap is the perfect run IMO.
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