Today we’re going to cover an important lesson in “How to Tank”, beginning with the most important step:
Read the room.
That’s right, the most important topic.
Is your healer undergeared, new, or struggling?
Give them breathing room, and take a look at their mana. They could be running on fumes!
Is your healer pulling for you?
They want something to heal, and you’re being too conservative in your pulls-- not enough damage is going out for them to be engaged.
Are your DPS capable of handling wall to wall pulls?
Are your DPS melting everything you pull? Pull more.
Are your DPS getting obliterated by mob AoE? Slow down.
There’s also no shame in splitting massive pulls!
Smart pulls trump massive pulls, every time.
Mark extra dangerous mobs for emphasis if needed.
You set the pacing in the dungeon, but you must play to the group you’re tanking for.
Groups do work with the tanks. It’s a two-way bridge. There’s so many threads in which posters tell healers and DPS how to deal with tanks (don’t DPS, use travel form to keep up, LoS, etc).
Wait how is this a lesson?
You must work for a university.
No one else would be so arrogant as to throw out a bunch of hypotheticals and then say “There, now go teach yourselves!”
Wrong first lesson, you need to address the zoomer DPS idiots who ignore the tank and healer and pull everything then expect the tank to pick them up and the healer to keep these idots alive.
