Pull big, I’ll pop all my CDs.
Pull small, I’ll enjoy my coffee.
Either way I’m good.
Play how you want, enjoy the game, ignore people that get upset. That’s my take.
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As someone who’s between 480-490 ilvl if the tank is going slow I just move on with the rest of the group and leave them behind, I’m overgeared for heroics and can easily survive and tank on my feral Druid, ain’t nobody got time for going slow in this easy joke content.
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I appreciate you.
i hate this half dungeons pull where EVERYONE has to sprint and the healer has to know the exact point the tank is gonna stop at so you can start pre casting your biggest heal on the tank or its a wipe.
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I prefer slow and steady over a sprint from start to finish.
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Alternatively tanks could also pull 1 pack, gauge the amount of damage received and pull another, or wait until the caster mob goes down and then pull the 2nd pack. Pulling 2 packs of say 3-4 mobs each could put extra strain on the healer. Smoother pulling at a deliberate pace is ideal as is continuously moving when ideal to do so during each pull
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Thats standard as a tank, particularly as a BDK who normally take more damage but heal it up faster. That is 33% to 50% of your health, unless that is happening in a single global you are still at safe levels. You should try to save some runic power so that you always have one death strike you can use if you drop below say 50%.
Also are you making sure that you are keeping up your bone shield? Thats a significant amount of armor that mitigates a lot of damage. Keeping your runes on CD with the hero talents prevents quite a bit as well.
By the sounds of it your still relatively new to tanking so pulling slower is ok, but I would suggest pulling larger now and than and get comfortable sitting at those levels for now. While it may be uncomfortable now and you may even wipe on occasion you will learn a lot of valuable lessons from it and eventually become comfortable with that. When that happens try dropping to around 30% before panicking.
I typically don’t even use renew or survival instincts unless I’m pulling 6+ packs or I am below 25% health, because I learned to trust the healer.
You may also want to try prot warrior at some point as the damage intake for them is much smaller and far more smooth.
as long as i don’t have to do it, i’d be fine with you pulling one at a time, if that made you feel confident 
Literally, no. Not “new” to tanking. Thank you for the tutorial. Thanks for the “pro” tip.
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It’s slow
they want to go fast
then form your own group
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They are not pro tips just a tip to help improve if you are looking to do so.
I remember my first foray into tanking and often panicking and stacking CD’s. It wasn’t until a friend of mine agreed to start healing me and he made a game of how low can you go and refused to heal me until my health was 10% or less with the goal of going to 1 health if possible.
A month of tanking for that and I learned to roll CD’s and trust him to keep me alive.
This is one of those times where I don’t know if this was sarcasm and my wife is gone at the moment so I can’t ask. Is the quotations around pro meant to be sarcastic or even an insult?
If so may I ask why as I tried my hardest to ensure that I used neutral language and even couched phrases with “it seems like” instead of saying “you are.”
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They pulling like this Remix and they are insanely threaded.
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1- you have to pull as per your team composition and damage out put. You cannot be putting them off to sleep on keyboard.
2- keep chain pulling. Why are you pulling 1 pack at a time when you already have the Agro.
3- move and pull the second pack.
4- as a tank you only need to keep agro
5- take the least amount of damage and not blow your big cds on trash packs. If you using cds on smaller packs then that is too big of a pull.
6- once you see your healer panicking. That is optimal pull level. Don’t pull more.
1 pack is good to learn if your new to wow. Not if you playing for a while.
Don’t listen to anything dps says. If they want you to pull check - check the above and do the needful.
If dps pulls - let them tank it. They won’t pull another pack. Dps don’t like adds on them.
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1 pack at a time is just boring and slow.
If you want to play like that, either find a group of like minded individuals or do follower dungeons.
Some healers need more targets, more targets = more efficent healing. And to also counter, my group loves the biiiiiiiiiiig pulls, i’ve yet to need to press my conduit of the celestials yet. But 1 pack at a time? Yikes, id leave as the healer in that group, literally would be faster to wait out the deserter buff and reque than moving like a snail xD
Been tanking for quite a long time. Your “tips” come off as smarmy and condescending. I don’t need “when I started tanking…” comments because they are meaningless. I tank on ALL tank classes and have done so for over ten years.
I’ll go ahead and place your remarks in the round file. Thanks coach, but I’m fine without your suggestions.
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I enjoy the game so Im fine with it.
Those who DONT enjoy the game just want to blow thru it mindlessly.
Thats why I still have TONS of questing to do…and THEY are all screaming theyre bored already. lol
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The funnest runs Ive been in were taken casually instead of running thru like the place was burning down
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The only way to “solve” your problem is to create a custom dungeon group clearly stating going very slowly. A majority of people using the queue wants to get it done fast and then you are in direct conflict with the random players.
Yeah this new age gameplay of pull everything to the boss kill boss then repeat kinda sucks but moving slow in these extremely easy instances feels even worse.
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you are playing like a bad tank and then getting offended when someone offers you advice to not be a bad tank.
you are a bad tank who doesn’t want to improve.
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