Comments on: Hit me with your rhythm stick http://www.ponies.me.uk/blog/2009/12/hit-me-with-your-rhythm-stick/ An world of endless Monday Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:42:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rummys Blog : Things that make you go hmmmmm. http://www.ponies.me.uk/blog/2009/12/hit-me-with-your-rhythm-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-6415 Rummys Blog : Things that make you go hmmmmm. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:32:29 +0000 http://www.ponies.me.uk/blog/?p=1672#comment-6415 [...] posted an interesting comment on my first Northrend tanking [...] [...] posted an interesting comment on my first Northrend tanking [...]

]]> By: Smyth http://www.ponies.me.uk/blog/2009/12/hit-me-with-your-rhythm-stick/comment-page-1/#comment-6411 Smyth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:01 +0000 http://www.ponies.me.uk/blog/?p=1672#comment-6411 As a tank, you gain the automatic right to shout at people. It's part of the requirement of being a tank. It also comes with the added bonus of being the leader of the party. If you're not... you usually should be. If a DPS is stupidly pulling aggro on mobs, it is your god-given right to teach them the error of their ways. And if the behaviour continues... to remove them from the group. It's amazing how many people don't know the basic reasons for most wipes: DPS pulls Aggro -> They get Hit -> Healer Spam Heals them -> Healer gets their Aggro -> They get Hit -> Healer Dies -> Group Wipes. Unless you can break that cycle, it's an inevitable wipe. And when the healer dies, everyone points the finger at the tank for not saving them. So you'd be making a rod for your own back not to speak up sooner. If you have a very sensible (or spiteful) healer, they'll let any over-agroing DPS'er drop dead, because that way the mob will usually just wander back over to the tank afterwards. No Tank / Healer = Wipe A Dead DPS = Slower Win As a tank, you gain the automatic right to shout at people. It’s part of the requirement of being a tank.
It also comes with the added bonus of being the leader of the party. If you’re not… you usually should be.

If a DPS is stupidly pulling aggro on mobs, it is your god-given right to teach them the error of their ways.
And if the behaviour continues… to remove them from the group.

It’s amazing how many people don’t know the basic reasons for most wipes:

DPS pulls Aggro -> They get Hit -> Healer Spam Heals them -> Healer gets their Aggro -> They get Hit -> Healer Dies -> Group Wipes.

Unless you can break that cycle, it’s an inevitable wipe.
And when the healer dies, everyone points the finger at the tank for not saving them. So you’d be making a rod for your own back not to speak up sooner.

If you have a very sensible (or spiteful) healer, they’ll let any over-agroing DPS’er drop dead, because that way the mob will usually just wander back over to the tank afterwards.
No Tank / Healer = Wipe
A Dead DPS = Slower Win

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