Xerq@Crushbone wrote:
Couching@Crushbone wrote:
Xerq@Crushbone wrote:
For PUG tanking, I have to make my own group to guarantee success, and I have to depend on getting some specific classes (Dirge at minimum) which may entail a bit of a wait. If I try to join an existing group, there's a good chance the group will be setup in a way that it will be difficult to succeed with me tanking. So before joining an existing group, I have to question the group's makeup. Even if the group makeup turns out ok, they may have found another tank who didn't need to ask the questions by the time I get those answers.
For PUG dps, I just respond to posts in 80-89 chat with: x - x melee dps unbuffed. And the group leader can decide whether that's acceptable. Often it is and I receive an invite. I don't even bother to say that I'm a monk.
Seemingly less of my game time is wasted when I go the dps route, so that's what I do.
Tanking heroic instance is a joke in SF.
Even rogue can tank most heroic instances with 1 healer without problem. Last night, I was crashed on last named in Spirit's resonance. After I logged back, swashy in the group was tanking named with a fury solo heal without problem. In fact, they were holding their dps and waiting for me for the kill update.
From the point of survivability, every fighter is far enough for heroic instances. The only difference is aggro management.
Yep. I didn't say that survivability was a problem. The one class I mentioned needing, dirge, obviously implies aggro management.
This is more a commentary on our class from the perspective of PUGs. If you have a regular group you run around with, that's awesome... you probably don't have the same frustrations.
I don't have a regular group and I have done a lot of pick up groups without a dirge. I don't have problem on aggro in most cases. Occasionally, dpsers with raid gear would get aggro on trash and it's not a big deal at all because mobs hit like a girl. As long as there is a healer in the group, nothing to worry.
If you can hold aggro on named off your mages, you are fine in a pick up group as tank.
It's their loose if they refuse to invite a monk as group tank. It's also their loose to invite a monk to play a dps role instead of a real dpser.