This Thing You Call Aggro.

[Kevin]

Darian's rule:  if you ain't healin', he ain't peelin' unless he has nothing better to do, or for this particular mob you are critical to success.  Absolutely nothing is going to get in the way of my primary job: keeping my healer vertical.
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Well my healer tells me she only heals me with renews most of the time. So if things get on the squishy and I leave them be that means that squishy is getting healed because the healer has nothing much else to do with her mana and that means that the healer might peel it off the squishy, or it's going to the healer when the squishy dies.

Maybe I'm extremely lucky with my healer, or I have a healer that is too nice. Right now about the only thing I'm slow to pull back off of is a hunter because they have an off tank, aspect of monkey and mail armor plus several good ways to drop aggro. Mages get attention, rogues get attention (though usually they can just hand aggro back), warlocks get attention, I've never tanked with a druid around. Heck I pull things off the paladin and other warrriors too because it should be hitting me.

Of course maybe since most of my parties have me as the only thing that can wear better than leather armor that might have something to do with it as well. I don't do squat for DPS. If things are going to die it's everyone else who is killing them so they need to not be taking damage, they need to be able to put out that damage.

I also check to see if the peel will be dead before whoever it is hitting. I leave them be in that case as well.

Or maybe I've just been with people who are pretty damn good with aggro so I don't really have to scramble that much and enjoy the challenge when I do. But I'm still bothered by a tank who doesn't feel they are there to keep everyone alive. Maybe I just need more bad experiences to sour me. Maybe I've been protection spec too long (my whole career) and don't want the only thing I can do taken away from me (because I have never played a lower DPS character than my protection spec warrior). Mobs hit me, I don't die, I make things like to hit me. That is my job because that is all I can do.