Tanks need to go faster they said

Ran a TW, pulled everything from boss to boss, left my group behind because they were too slow, killed all the enemies on my own, waited at the boss for the group to show up and… got vote kicked out.

Go fast, go slow, go at a medium rare pace, makes no difference, people complain, people whine, people vote kick you out.

Can’t win in this game.

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Yeah, sounds like you don’t know how to be a tank.

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It’s not rocket science, you tank enemies and you kill them, if people can’t press W why is that my fault for not knowing how to tank?

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You tank enemies and the dps kills them. You enable them to do their job. You keep the heat off your team and funnel the damage into one place - you - to enable the healer to do their job. It’s not rocket science.

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OH OK so I am not allowed to do any damage, got it. I can’t pull too slow or the DPS pulls for me, got it. I can’t pull too fast or the DPS can’t do any damage, got it.

Is there anything else I am not allowed to do?

You see what I mean by I can’t win, one dude tells me I am not pulling fast enough and wants me to pull everything, people complain on the forums about tanks going too slow, but now here you are telling me I am going too fast, that’s the first I ever heard of complaining someone is going too fast.

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Skill issue

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and this is why dungeons shouldn’t be ran like this, Blizzards fault with its garbage speed mode crap and im sick of it as a healer.

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When the rest of the team can’t even keep up with you, you’re going too fast. I mean if you’re so determined to do it all yourself anyway, who cares if you got kicked? Just go run it yourself.

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Sure absolutely, I will join the TW solo queue and… oh, right, yeh about that.

If someone can’t press W that’s not on me.

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If you can’t take your finger off W, that is on you.

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Oh yeh I have a skill issue by pressing W and it’s all magically my fault for not waiting around for some DPS to stop skinning mobs, or looting chests they find in dungeons, of course, how silly of me, it’s always the tanks fault.

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Literally yes. They’re playing the game.

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So how about instead of me going to do the dungeons solo, how about if they want to stop the rest of the group by dilly dallying, how about THEY go and skin mobs and loot treasure chests solo?

Why is it always the tanks fault for literally EVERYTHING that goes wrong in this game? You realise you are the exact embodiment of why tanks don’t tank.

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Honestly it sounds like less of “It’s THIS persons fault!” – and more of a communication issue … :woman_shrugging:

Sometimes a quick ask about how they’d like mobs to be taken, or chain pulled – can save stress, time and various misconceptions about how things are or will be. :slight_smile:

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Waiter! Waiter! There’s a fly in my steak!

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You told us you are the one who left all of them behind. They aren’t stopping the rest of the group. The rest of the group is stopping and you’re hightailing it out of there.

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Good idea, but doesn’t work in older content, or anything outside of M+ really.

The amount of dungeons I have seen where even when I wait for all the players to get in the dungeon and are ready to go there is almost always some DPS who decides it’s go time.

You really can’t win in this game, you group with 4 random players who do random things.

I had a TW earlier where the tank was going the wrong way, one of the DPS started giving it to them asking about “How good this M+ run was going” and went on about how we need more % of mobs to clear. I’ve seen DPS start boss fights before the tank and healer were even there.

But yet when I try to go fast, nope sorry, can’t do that either.

I found a post earlier where a tank was complaining about DPS pulling for them because they were going too slow. It’s older, trivial content.

Tell Blizzard Microsoft to change it than, make older content as hard as M+ so tanks can’t go fast. Because for as long as there has been an easy mode option you will always find players who decide we have to go fast, be it the tank, the DPS, someone is almost always going to pull ahead if the tank does not.

I could write a novel on the amount of times I have seen DPS pull ahead, I’ve even seen evokers and priests drag tanks into new packs before the last pack was even cleared.

For me personally in older content, for the sake of this argument in TW the end game is the last boss, you get TW weekly done, you get your TW 500 badge quest, even if you don’t actively participate in the killing of a boss which I have seen because someone pulled before the group got there you still get credit, you still get loot.

If people are dying, sure, go about telling the tank to slow down and wait, or if a tank skips ahead and you all get stuck sure kick them out, as long as people don’t die, what does it really even matter? In a group setting with 5 random people in older trivial content, if one person is skinning mobs or slowing the other 4 down, don’t you think maybe that person needs to be told to hurry up and stop slowing the group down?

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Sounds like a skill issue.

99% of tanks I play with are amazing. Rarely have i seen a tank in one of my groups get kicked, aside from being afk. You might just need to work on your tanking buddy.

Or you can always play forza or Gran Turismo if you really have that much of a need for speed.

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One thing I’ve noticed in groups over the years is that sometimes people get kicked for gameplay reasons and other times people get kicked because they’re insufferable and unlikable.

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