Dear DPS…you ruin it for yourselves.
- October 24th, 2011
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So I try to play the role of the concerned male. You know how it goes. Every once in a while you feel that spark to try to help out and “go that extra mile”. The only place that it could EVER be ruined would be…..you guessed it…..World of Warcraft.
“OK, Twizz, seriously, what the fuck are you even talking about?” Allow me to explain….
Since my latest post on this blog, a LOT has happened. I covered some of the bigger things briefly in my last post and I won’t get into it again. But lets just say I’ve been really busy in the WoW community! I’ve been part of a guild now for a while on Kul Tiras (Horde side) with the co-host of Rep Grind Radio Mr. R9sid9nt9vil. We opened up recruiting to our listeners and we’ve gotten a really good response! One person in particular was nice enough to bring over his druid and be a bear tank. Well…..he came to the right place. His gear needed some work and I explained how to do the tank dance and what the meaning of cooldowns truly means.
After beating a target dummy completely bloody, I decided to give him a taste of the old Headless Horseman’s blade. I walked him through how to do it, what abilities to use and his threat was great and I did little to no healing on him. THAT is when I came up with my next great idea…..
“Lets go do a regular random dungeon. Nothing super challenging and you’ll overgear it so you won’t have to worry about dps pulling threat or anything….you can concentrate on your cooldowns and rotation as well as the actual feeling of tanking”. Those were famous last words.
Now, one little thing before I get too far into this. Lets say that you’re…..uuumm….an 83 mage. You land in a dungeon with a fairly well geared tank and healer and both are level 85. I’d think to myself “SWEEEEEET! This is going to be an easy run!” Apparently some people forget that luxury and are more concerned with getting through the dungeon in less than 7 minutes because anything after that is a waste of their precious, PRECIOUS, FUCKING PRECIOUS time.
So we land in our dungeon and it’s got a fairly tricky pull right off the bat. I’m explaining to him that his best bet is to just run in there and grab everything you can. Now, I’m explaining this in vent so it took…..MAYBE……7 seconds. That’s when the 83 mage (as previously discussed) decides to open his mouth and say “go tank! god! fucking GO!”. I told him to chill out and I was explaining in vent to a new tank how it works.
Well I found out something that EVERYONE knows and somehow in my 4 years of gameplay I happened to overlook! According to this dickbag, tanking is easy! Run in, grab threat on everything and that’s it. There is NOTHING else to do but that.
Well, I explained to him that there’s a little bit more than that and all I got was 100% attitude. I told him he could put up with a slightly slower pace or he could go sit back in que. I should have booted him, but for some reason, I didn’t.
Anyways, he proceeded to tell me about how he used to have a bear tank back in wrath and he “just gave it up because it was too fucking easy and boring”. He also called me an elitist several times and it finally got to the point where I just typed “For the love of God….just shut up. Please. Just go the fuck away or shut up”. To no avail obviously.
But the reason I type this post is because I’m seeing a trend. Low amount of tanks available…….heals are available but not overflowing…….and then you have the dps. The people who love to run the show. The people who always know the most efficient way of doing things, yet they don’t do them themselves. The people who have an 85 Ret Pally, an 85 Enhancement Shaman, an 85 Rogue and an 85 frost DK, however, they know how to tank everything better than anyone. “It’s easy….you just run in and grab threat”. No, you ignorant fuck. Threat is the least of your worries now. Staying alive in these dungeons is key. Also, being a tank and dealing with a dps that refuses to target the same thing that everyone else is. How does a new tank deal with that? THESE are the things I’m trying to teach and have him learn and all you’re doing is making life harder. I’m trying to make another tank available in the que. You know, maybe lower your wait time by 30 seconds or a minute. And this is what you say? This is how you treat him? I don’t blame him if he never wants to tank again, and he did a REALLY good job for his first go at it.
So therein lies the problem. And I know some of you are going to say “Dude, I know tanks that are just as bad if not worse….” Well allow me to retort….
Here’s a SMALL list of shit we have to deal with on a DAILY basis:
1) A dps that just ignores the fact that skull goes first, then X, then whatever is CC’d. “Fuck that, I’ll target what I want”.
2) LOW dps. That’s right, people who just don’t know how to play their class. The healer can only keep my alive for SO long guys before I’m out of cooldowns and he’s out of mana. You don’t know your shit, we all die. You’re the “DAMAGE DEALER”.
3) DPS thinking that everything is a faceroll. They acquire a little bit of gear and suddenly all mechanics can be ignored and they just do what they want. It doesn’t work that way.
4) DPS that think that it’s their job to pull a mob because the tank isn’t going fast enough (or fast enough for their liking). What YOU (Mr. DPS) have probably failed to see is that maybe the tank is waiting on a cooldown (ie: enrage, death & decay, etc) and needs that in order to generate threat. MAYBE the fucking healer is out of mana! I KNOW FOR A FACT that you didn’t look at the healers mana before YOU decided to pull the mob. That’s things we learn to do as a tank.
I could give you reasons 5-50 but we all have a semi-limited amount of time
So, I debated about doing this or not and decided to go with it. Here’s the douchebag…….
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/dragonmaw/Bonezs/simple
So anyways, as you sit in que for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20+ minutes…….I apologize if you’re a good person. Because a few people shit their pants…….you ALL have to wear diapers now.
Twizz out.
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Tanking is easy >_>
Apparently I keep missing this memo……-.-
The reason I tank instances as a 2-man with my healing partner.
Also when someone tells you they played a tank back in (whenever) and quit because it was too easy …they are always lying. Otherwise they would be tanking for easy loot.
Ignore is your friend, use it often and well.
I only PuG as a DPS because people are so terrible to the Tank/Healer. It becomes not fun in those roles under those circumstances.
You hit the nail on the head my friend! I completely agree, tanking isn’t what it used to be (Wrath era). Even if he was a tank at one time, he probably was so terrible at it and got so much flak from the other DPS that he gave up on it because “no one else knows what to do”. Too bad he didn’t learn his lesson. Ah well, good riddance to bad rubbish. Thanks for leaving a comment!!!!!!
As someone who tanks raids but is generally reluctant to tank pug 5 mans, I agree this post is why i don’t. I’ll wait the 20 as dps to avoid the pressure and assholery as a tank.
Now, however a small request to tanks. If you’re not marking the kill order in your 5 mans (which is nearly 100% of the time) please target the mob you want dead 1st and stay on him for a sec. I have you focused, and my focus target macro ready to go. But, if you want me to wait, and you switch too soon, I will be targeting the wrong mob. I’ve seen my threat jump up on omen, and have to swtich targets again. I know Twizz, you’re saying there are no DPS that use both Omen AND Focus Target macros – well I’m that guy. I get enough shit for being a DK, so I do my best to counter the stereotype.
Good post as always, keep up the great work on both this blog, and RepGrindRadio.
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nice one dude… XD
Dear, the fuck, Twizz,
I’ve decided to start to read your blog and this post is spot on. Yup, I just had to start it off as a trolling parade. Anyhows, tanking Pugs is not worth it. In Wrath it was a peace of cake and even if DPS were assholes it went so fast there was no issues. In Cata things have been different and I made sure to only focus on one class and one class only, Hunter DPS. No tanking, no healing just sit back and do whatever, within reason ofc.
Being a druid was hell for the simple reason that the guild would ask me to play roles I disliked; Healing in PvE. PvP was cool. With hunter i’m fucked, but in one way. Oh well, end of rant.
Good post and I agree. Imma tweet this now!