Venting about Warriors again.Follow

****, im a warrior and if i was tanking with him in my group i would have kicked his *** out. He obviously doesn't know how to play a warrior. First of all, staying in defensive stance increases the amount of threat he puts out, so that was giving him even more threat problems. Secondly, he should be ******* greatful that he can kick back and dps. He brings nothing else to a 5 man. You can easily find someone else to fill his spot. When i get to dps in an instance, i make sure to **** no one off. Maybe then they'll invite me to dps later. For the most part i hate dps warriors, i rarely bring them to a group when im tanking, and when i do, they are usually bragging about how well they dps, constantly checking the damage meter, not watching their threat and causing wipes. Their ******* stupid.

Paladin...druid...warrior...they all suck at tanking. They're also all great at tanking. It depends on the player. All I can say is on my warriors I prefer to tank, simply because I'm prot. Of course, if there's a prot pally, I'd rather just find a new group (or have him heal and the other healer DPS if the DPS is healing specced), so we don't have this issue.

But...if I was arms or fury, I would gladly DPS. In berserker stance. And I'd probably prefer salvation to might, because that's a big increase in how much DPS I COULD put out.

But this guy was a moron. He should have just stayed in battle/zerker and switched to defense and taunted if you died. Be glad you're on his ignore list. If you dont group with him again, you'll be better off.

It happens to everyone at some point. Someone thinks they can do your job better than you and starts getting obnoxious about it. Kick em from the run early and find someone else.

I've had a feral druid complain that I couldn't heal the run and should DPS. As a holy paladin. He said we had to get a priest, even a shadow priest. Group leader threatened to kick him from the run if he didn't shut up. We filled the last spot(the one he thought should be a "real healer") with a rogue. Run went quite smooth after that.

Moral of the story: You can see problems like this coming. Nip them in the bud.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are born with the capacity for true idiocy."

I have a dream that one day the sons of moronic tanks and the sons of dumbass DPS will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood, and then break it while laughing hysterically at Adam Sandler. (Not at the movies; at his name. Hee hee, Sandler.)


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Idiots abound. It's the true equal-opportunity sport.

been there done that, I once did a shadow labs run with a 'dee pee ess' warrior.
Seeing that I play a 'offspecc' I'm always open to others', when we started clearing I noticed something. I enabled damage meters (yes i know blah blah) and saw that he was doing nearly no damage. It didn't bother me much but when I saw him building up sunders on the second boss I started to get angry.

At certain time he started attacking the mobs I wasn't attacking whilst in dps gear, and starts taunting mobs off me and when I used my taunt he switched to battle stance and used a mocking blow, after the mocking blow the add gets back to me and he used challenging shout. I had a serious chat with him, but he just kept on doing it.
I sent all my other party members a wisper and we decided to remove him from our group, he was really sad about it and wispered me with a 'why???????' after the milioned time I explained him to GET OUT OF THAT FREAKING DEFENSIVE STANCE AND DO FREAKING DAMAGE!

I cant help but hold a grudge. That guy made me so mad.

I ended up doing a few other runs with half the party. We did very well.

Nice stories, makes me feel like I got smartass one.

Wow. You can use sunder in any stance. Good lord.

My ex-guildleader is a warrior. He thought rend was good to use as a tank. He also didn't understand that Sunder post 60 isn't quite the ultimate tanking tool it used to be, so all he really did was Sunder, Rend, Shield Bash, and occasionally Devastate. Yes, he was prot and rarely used Shield Slam. Needless to say, I had to hold back a lot to not pull aggro. And we'd get enrages. Anywho, one day, one of my guildmates(another refugee from that guild who commonly ran with the guildleader) sent me a link to this comic.

Every time I hear of a tank rending, or even hear the word Rend, I think of him and the comic, and I laugh.

Edited, Sep 21st 2007 12:27am by Poldaran

That's honestly why I do it. It is so mindshattering to other people (especially Horde) when one guy can hold aggro well on all targets. Almost EVERY party that I am in has at least one or two guys who have either never had a Paladin tank or automatically thinks that they must suck cause they are not a warrior or a bear. By one or two pulls, I have converted both groups into the church of Paladin tanking.

For instance, I have been holding on to this story for a bit and I'm gonna throw it out now. I was tanking Shattered Halls about a week ago, and I get into a group with a Paladin healer (blues+pvp epics), hunter, warlock and mage (all 3 seemed to have just hit 70 recently by looking at their gear). I tell them at the beginning that they don't have to cc, a lot of "Wut??" and "OMG we're going to wipe with this guy" started happening. First pull I hold aggro on only 4 guys and the hunter was saying "OMG Paladins are my favorite tank." To which I replied "You aint seen nothin' yet" (Yes I can be a bit cocky when I tank, but I can back it up). The mage was afk the whole time as we went down the first hallway and I aoe tanked every single group with no cc.

Finally at the end of the hallway, I grabbed the 7 mob group, and the 4 sleeping also eventually aggrod (first time that happened to me), and I grabbed and held onto all of them as the hunter tried desperately to pull one off to trap one and the warlock just started spamming Seed of Corruption, effectively making them explode all over the place with the Paladin healer just spamming FoL and HoL occasionally on me. We ended up with no deaths, the healer at about half-mana, and dead fel-orc bodies everywhere with much praise towards me.

Edit: Hunters can't cast Seed of Corruption ;)

Edited, Sep 21st 2007 12:21pm by CapJack

Awwww green don't like me :(


I was also on top of the Damage meter from all the AOE tanking by the time we got to the first boss >.> that was the first time that happened to me, and I laughed at the warlock who was all pissed about it, he later started unleashing a lot more as he should have.

Most fun is at the hallway where all the non-elites keep running at you until you get at the end where the archers and the other elites are waiting for you, My tactic is essentially run to the end and aoe them down, it's fun when I'm holding aggro on 20 non-elites and the 3 elites at the end.

those guys hurt . . . hurt bad.

i feel ur pain dude

but that man is just one horrible warior

means that he doesnt know how to switch stances (it's even easier than druids shapeshifting, only one click!!!)

def stance generate more hate and has 10% less dmg out put, i wonder y he can be so stupid

and all tanks need ppl to hit them to work well (druid and war need rage! and paly simply need ppl to hit them so that they can block and do holy dmg) so if ur dps starts to pull agro, it's very hard for u to get it back, (althought u can try judging and stun and then judging again, and tell ur group that: when u stun, stop atking that mob)

palys are amazing tanks, and we can heal like gods (non-arena due to mass dispell) and dps well with the proper gear and way of playing (yes, i'm talking about ret! there are good ret pallis out there, very few cause it takes SKILLS not just years of non stop playing)
so all u pally haters out there, STFU