Archive for January 5th, 2010:
Trying to be of /assistance
I know that not all of my readers are predominantly tanks. Maybe some of you DPS will read this, or even healers (because it applies to some of you too).
- Read ‘Do not spank the tank‘ over in the WoW European forums. Credit for discovering this gem goes to Heartbourne over at Project Lore.
- When you start running an instance, set your tank as /focus.
- If you are melee DPS, create a macro to assist the tank. It will start auto-attacking the current target of your focus, which should be the tank:
#showtooltip Attack
/target [target=focustarget, harm, nodead]
/startattack - If you are caster DPS, change the macro to:
/target [target=focustarget, harm, nodead]
Why the macro, you might ask? Just to provide some kind of assistance to the tank. I play DPS as well, and I always try to assist the tank and not pull aggro inevitably. Based on my personal experience, many people don’t care about marked targets, kill order or /assisting, and this macro would be such an easy fix for a lot of people. Try it, you damage dealers. It won’t hurt anyone, and will not kill your DPS.
As personal appeal: Please do not pull for the tank.
I have seen healers, mages, death knights, everyone and their brother pull. If the pace is too slow, say so, without using the gogogo variation.
Alternatively, I think tanks need to be more resolute, stop taunting off people who pull or kick them. I know I will, because it gets tiresome.
