12-30-2004, 08:15 AM
Boutros,Dec 29 2004, 06:17 PM Wrote:While I find tanking a single elite fairly trivial, I am troubled when multiples are pulled and no crowd control is available or used. I often find myself running around frantically trying to save the cloth wearers, or tanking creeps that no one else is attacking. [right][snapback]63862[/snapback][/right]
First of all, I don't have a warrior. But as a priest I get dragged on many runs with many different group dynamics...
Sometimes, you tanking a creep that nobody else is attacking is not necessarily a bad thing. One SM run I remember we had a completely gung-ho rogue who didn't know the first thing about aggro management and hadn't even learnt feint *sigh* So the rest of the party just learned to assist the rogue (call him a secondary tank :unsure: ) to get his target killed quickly and save my mana since he pulled the aggro of anything he touched.
Meanwhile, the tank is a really competent player and sees what we're doing, and has no problem sitting there all by his lonesome trying to beat up two mobs with just my renew on him and the occasional flash heal.
Basically, I'm just saying that group dynamics dictate alot of your tactics, especially as a tank. Since you're called upon to fix other people's screw ups and ignorance (whaddya mean I shouldn't cast arcane missiles right away?), you can be frustrated just simply by other people's stupidity, which is in no way your fault. Alot of tanks always feel like it's their fault when a cloth type dies. Most of the times it's not. Rare is the group with no crowd control at all. Your second statement is most likely correct, they're not using their CC, and there's only so much you can do to try and save them from themselves.