You’re a DPS. Try it as a tank hosting your own key in a pure pug group every time, where you are expected to be perfect and people will tear you to pieces at the slightest imperfection.
If I could somehow as a tank prevent people from making these repeated obvious mistakes in my group I would. Instead I stand there watching them fail a pass/fail mechanic that their repeated M+ history suggests they should easily pass most/every time.
These are the same people who go crazy if I don’t fill the group within 5 minutes, yet are the first to leave if something goes wrong, often because of them.
I’m far from a great player. My deficiencies are more in terms of throughput, like not pressing a keyboard button 10 times per second. Various dangerous things in M+ are often telegraphed and rapidly become muscle memory for me, as they should be for anyone with comparable or better M+ experience than me.
I’ll be honest. Slamming my head on this week has nearly burned me out of pug M+ tanking and it’s all I’ve done in WoW for most of BFA (after tanking + healing evenly in legion M+). This is coming from someone who considers himself quite the masochist when it comes to videogames. A less patient and sane man would have quit this pug M+ tanking lifestyle many months ago or last expansion. Unfortunately I can’t trust most pug tanks when I try to heal and playing any DPS specs put me to sleep, even though I raided progression as DPS for multiple tiers in WOD and previous expansions.
As for calling out people for ruining my key, yes I did and yes they ruined my key and I had no control over them ruining that key beyond checking them beforehand and placing trust in them to be competent. I would have opened up way more on them verbally but it seems everyone is extremely sensitive these days in game and will mass report you for the slightest issue. I believe the mass reporting and silencing system is partially or fully automated so giving anyone any ammunition to use against you will blow up in your face these days, even if they deserve it.
I know you are trying to pin these failures on me somehow but my runs in general have a 90-95% success rate at timing and I really take my time so put together a good group checking people. Also no by “good group” I don’t mean inviting people significantly higher score than me because that has blown up in my face too many times. For example I pick someone with a timed 18 siege bolstering + explosive tyrannical run. That’s not a trivial key for the average pure pug DPS player to time. I invite that person into my 19 bursting volcanic and they promptly screw most/every easy mechanic, including dying on the first round of bombs on the first boss. This same string of failures would have prevented them from even COMPLETING the much harder key they timed on their record. So what’s the deal ? The deal is that the vast majority of pure pug players this week simply do.not.care.
It was the same situation on the previous bursting + volcanic weeks in BFA. I’ve also seen threads pop up on these forums and on other forums like reddit or mmo champ over time regarding push weeks and they expressed the same thoughts. Too many players in these weeks simply let their guard down and don’t realize that even without the affixes you can still have for example a 600% multiplier on trash and a 400% multiplier on bosses. These same multipliers will still destroy you for being sloppy.
I used the last of my energy and patience last night and got lucky with some pugs timing a siege 19 and FH 20, both my keys again. These people had comparable experience to the ones who failed my previous keys multiple times this week, so thankfully they actually remembered that it’s a 19/20, and not a 0 or LFD.
I’m going to force myself to heal more in M+ for the remainder of BFA. Playing a pug tank and having a giant microscope on me ready to tear me apart for the slightest imperfection has become exhausting.