I'm leveling another protection paladin. Early in the day there seems to be a DPS shortage (or maybe it's something with the healers), so I end up in randoms as DPS rather than as a tank. As a result, I have found myself in several groups with you tanking. I have been disappointed.
You keep dropping consecration early. And in the wrong spot. This makes no sense. It's not something which follows you. Where you put it, it stays. So put it in a useful place, such as in the middle of a pack, rather than where you were standing when you pulled.
Speaking of pulling, throw avenger's shield at casters. It silences them and bring them close so all the AoEs can hit them. That also means that you have aggro on them, so they aren't standing off to the side zapping the healer.
You don't have to always use seal of insight. Especially when DPS are getting aggro because you're so bad.
As for all you retribution paladins, why? You're above 30, so you can get two specs. I understand that healing is terrifying (not sarcasm), but why not tank? Throw on a shield and you are now geared as a tank, since it's not as if avoidance stats become common until much later, and aren't needed until much later anyway. You can do it! I have a friend who just started playing and managed to teach her to tank on a druid. A druid! Now there's a tricky tanking class, what with not every single ability being an AoE for massive damage. If some newb can pick up druid tanking (not an expert, but did get a compliment once) in a few days, surely you can do it too. Just pretend it's DPS and replace crusader strike with hammer of the righteous and you're about halfway there. It's like I said, tanks are DPS who gave up on aggro management. Oh, but please do drop consecrate in the right place. I'm sick of healers getting pissed on.
Finally, why are you such assholes? I get that tanks are awesome and all, but seriously? I'll grant that my sample size is small, but I don't want to deal with the assholes rewuired to get a larger sample size. So with that in mind, one group has the tank ignoring suggestions and then pulling as awkwardly as possible, complete with random pauses in movement and what appeared to be keyboard turning, and then topping it all off with a boss pull that wiped the group and then blaming the healer. I decided to save us the trouble and just tank the last boss, since we had to kick him after he logged off without dropping group. After that we had the healer who forgot water, so then everyone had to make up the 99.9999999% of the time useless habit of not auto-looting, the failure of which resulted in the rogue being called a retard. I pointed out the absurdity of that being the sole qualification for being a retard, resulting in me being called a noob and claims that I was "carried", whatever the hell that means at level 49.
Tanks, we have a heavy burden. We are the front of the group, the first thing the enemies see, so let's put on a good face. Set a good pace. Set a good mood. As the sniper says: "Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
You keep dropping consecration early. And in the wrong spot. This makes no sense. It's not something which follows you. Where you put it, it stays. So put it in a useful place, such as in the middle of a pack, rather than where you were standing when you pulled.
Speaking of pulling, throw avenger's shield at casters. It silences them and bring them close so all the AoEs can hit them. That also means that you have aggro on them, so they aren't standing off to the side zapping the healer.
You don't have to always use seal of insight. Especially when DPS are getting aggro because you're so bad.
As for all you retribution paladins, why? You're above 30, so you can get two specs. I understand that healing is terrifying (not sarcasm), but why not tank? Throw on a shield and you are now geared as a tank, since it's not as if avoidance stats become common until much later, and aren't needed until much later anyway. You can do it! I have a friend who just started playing and managed to teach her to tank on a druid. A druid! Now there's a tricky tanking class, what with not every single ability being an AoE for massive damage. If some newb can pick up druid tanking (not an expert, but did get a compliment once) in a few days, surely you can do it too. Just pretend it's DPS and replace crusader strike with hammer of the righteous and you're about halfway there. It's like I said, tanks are DPS who gave up on aggro management. Oh, but please do drop consecrate in the right place. I'm sick of healers getting pissed on.
Finally, why are you such assholes? I get that tanks are awesome and all, but seriously? I'll grant that my sample size is small, but I don't want to deal with the assholes rewuired to get a larger sample size. So with that in mind, one group has the tank ignoring suggestions and then pulling as awkwardly as possible, complete with random pauses in movement and what appeared to be keyboard turning, and then topping it all off with a boss pull that wiped the group and then blaming the healer. I decided to save us the trouble and just tank the last boss, since we had to kick him after he logged off without dropping group. After that we had the healer who forgot water, so then everyone had to make up the 99.9999999% of the time useless habit of not auto-looting, the failure of which resulted in the rogue being called a retard. I pointed out the absurdity of that being the sole qualification for being a retard, resulting in me being called a noob and claims that I was "carried", whatever the hell that means at level 49.
Tanks, we have a heavy burden. We are the front of the group, the first thing the enemies see, so let's put on a good face. Set a good pace. Set a good mood. As the sniper says: "Be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
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