We all understand the concept of tanking for friends or your guild… ignoring that entirely, why do you or do you not, tank for pugs?
Please post if you are a tank, and if you’re not and why.
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I don’t because i’m not a tank 
While farming for an hour or so and seeing that same poor fella spamming for a tank the entire time I usually convince myself to help him out and tank the dungeon.
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That’s very generous of you.
I only tank an instance if I want loot, badges or quest completion.
And as those get ticked off, increasingly I only want to do the daily heroic.
Never for nothing.
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On normals? Sure, I’ll grab any three rando DPS, and a healer, and go. This has led to some, ah, interesting pulls. But I’ve made a ton fo friends.
For heroic? I’m more picky, but our server has a small enough community that most of us know each other. Reputations really matter. I pugged heroic OHB, and it went poorly. We wiped repeatedly, and just barely downed the first boss before breaking up.
But we also all communicated, and all decided mutually. No one got mad, and we decided to come back another time after we’d collectively gotten some more gear. If I waited for only guild groups I’d never have met any of those people.
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Because I get paid 200g per H Arc, and 100g per other heroic.
Benefits of being on such a big server I suppose.
I have no reason otherwise to do dungeons.
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Because people pay gold… not sure what is OP trying to make out of this but it’s pretty obvious.
But yeah not all tanks charge and expect gold but I would say most of them are nowdays on this version.
I just charge to run pugs. They are usually grateful just to get a tank to help them out.
There are those that refuse to hire a tank. To them I say enjoy your queue time.
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On our server that’s like 30 seconds. Half the time we have tanks looking for groups themselves.
The nice thing about being on a big server.
Don’t care about dungeon loot, ran to get exalted, help some guild members. Then farmed the badges I wanted. Now just see no reason to tank them for randoms.
It’s rare to full pug for me. Generally I’m at least helping one guildy or RL friend. If I am full pugging it’s because it’s an odd hour and I want to get badges or drops for OS gear. I have had a generally positive PUG experience, outside of an H BM where the priest just wouldn’t offensive dispel the second boss each time. Only group I’ve left since TBC classic launched because after 4 attempts on that boss alone I had other things to do. I have yet to charge for it, but I’m cool with people doing that since there’s a market for it. After I have all my OS gear I would do it for gold.
Because I have been tanking for a very long time, while pugs are good to test your skills and push you to the limits. At this point I just want a smooth run and doing a smooth run with a bunch of pugs is a roll of the dice on each slot that is filled.
I could have 4 idiots, 2 idiots and 2 good players, 3 good players and 1 guy that is border line on being kicked or any other combination under the sun. Not only do I have to find a group comp that I can do the dungeon with, I have to find a group that actually understands I am not a paladin tank when it comes to threat and realizes that skull is the primary DPS target, not moon.
I also have all the gear I need and a good stockpile of badges. So I will help a guildy out but that is about it. So I normally respec to PVP after raid is done.
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I only tank pugs to make gold, I need no loot, rep or badges from any normal/heroic dungeon for any of my specs, so its just a way to make gold for me.
I’d tank more for guild but most of the time it’s hard to find people wanting the same thing I want, so I just grab some randoms so I can actually run some stuff.
because i like to collect badges, epics and primal nether. as well as learning how to adapt and think on my feet, considering the factor like dungeon mechanics and the varying player capabilities + personalities and spells
one more thing I don’t mind explaining a fight over and over again, as well as kicking trolls from my party
I tanked normals extensively on my Paladin in Retribution spec while leveling and at 70. I see no reason Warriors and Druids cannot tank normals no matter what their spec is.
Heroic modes on the other hand have a prohibitive gear and spec requirement. I’ll eventually accumulate offset gear but unfortunately I can’t justify respeccing just to do some heroics.
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If you pay me 100G(respec fee), I’ll gladly tank for you.
Pretty much it.
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Pay for my “inconvenience”(as some people here like to call it) and I’m all yours, baby.
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I generally don’t tank heroics for pugs unless it’s a reputable player or guild looking.
Why? Because most heroics require players to know what they are doing, and it’s like herding cats otherwise.
Because its way too random and I don’t need that in my runs. When you pug, you don’t know if you’re going to get chill people who know what to do or people who fire off seeds into a pack when I’m trying to LOS them and only have thrown weapon threat on a single mob.
Basically, because of dumb dps.