Ravielsk
Magister
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- Feb 20, 2021
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Tanking is just as brain dead easy as everything else in the game. Anyone can do it, there's no special skill required. If your tank is losing aggro consistently despite using demo shout, HS and sunder then it's probably because his gear isn't good enough to compete with the DPS, in which case the problem lies with the DPS classes and they should tone it down (as in use those baseline aggro reducing abilities).
Oh, boy how old you make me feel. This used to be common knowledge right up until Wotlk came out. I still remember how our guild leader used to stress the need for DPS to throttle their damage otherwise the tank will not be able to keep up no matter the gear. Heroics and raids were pretty much impossible to do without properly managing aggro on all sides of the party. Also running towards the tank not away from him if you pulled aggro was part of the basics.
Then came Wotlk and well... the game went to shit. Suddenly everyone assumed that the only one who should even consider aggro as a "thing" in the game is the tank and that treating dungeons as anything else but speed runs for emblems is for noobs. Seriously I would get so many mages decked out in epics bitching that my "barely 5 minutes after hitting 80" tank was not able to keep up with their spam and telling them to tone it down would only result in me getting kicked or them asking the shaman to tank. It only got worse in Cata and onward. Hell, even expecting them to run towards me when they pulled aggro was too much to ask, because apparently my taunts have no cooldowns and unlimited range. People would even seriously ask me why am I even queuing up as a tank when I dont have the gear for it, you know as if they would let me have any tanking gear when I was playing as a shitty DPS.
The game not filtering out people before they hit their first dungeon has seriously damaged the game. The sheer quantity of what I can only assume are mentally stunted 7 year olds shoot through the roof after Wotlk and it kept only getting worse.