The new dungeon que feature kicks ass

[Lissa]

I have been in love with the dungeon finder since day 1. My main (a ret paladin) has tanked every single heroic she has been in that didn't have a fellow guildie tank in, my little 70 priest healer has less than 5 minute queue times 90% of the time, and I have even had decent luck on my 80 mage. It might be that the time on him goes faster because I'm leveling a prof while I wait though.

On the other hand, I am more than a little perturbed by the attitude that many DPS take in these pugs. On my DK I had a particularly painful Nexus group on my Ally DK tank. The DPS were all from an 'awesome 25' guild that have the starcaller title. While my DK is geared, I still tank at a moderate pace. It is a personal thing, as when I tank I like knowing what is going on, and keeping things contained. I asked nicely to let me pull. I asked again to let me pull. After a couple more pulls that went hectic, I said: "You Pull it, You tank it". We get to Anomolus, and the moonkin pulls while I'm waiting on a couple of runes to tick clean as the dps was really pushing the bounds of my threat generation as it was. I walk up onto the platform and sit down. I refuse to tank him for the first 60% of his health while they yell at me for not doing my job. After my point was made, I tank the rest of the dungeon, listen to the verbal assaults during Keristrasza, put them all on ignore when I get my frost emblems and drop group.

I guess it is too much to ask to let the tank do its job in the new RDF when you overgeared. It isn't like I was marking targets and forcing single targeting. I just wanted to pull get the initial aggro so that I wasn't taunting and DG-ing, and all manner of nonsense.

That may be in part due to how DK tanks work in respect to the others. The other tanks have aspects that make them want to rush through (keeping rage up in the case of Bears and Warriors and keeping Divine Plea up in the case of Pallies). DKs are the one tank that are limited by built in time mechanics which force them to go at a slower pace because some of their threat depends on something that refreshes over time. I don't think the majority of the population realizes this about DKs and thinks they can rush, rush, rush like the other tanks.