stainer wrote on Nov 2
nd, 2011 at 3:10pm:
Consumer -
So you know, as a person that plays a healer occasionally, it is preferable to have a someone with some high ac/healing amp over a big fat dps machine tanking horoth. Not saying you had one available, but most healers will tell you this.
I do know, being someone who has played a healer occaionally. Without the AC that is.
I was the only one in the group that I trusted to keep the bosses agro in one place having seen one of there selected tanks lose it multiple times before, not just to myself in other raids. I have also had other problems with so called tank that tell you to come in and DPS and you take agro. I then lose more and more DPS with them saying it will be fine and it never is, I find this to solely be a problem with WF tanks.
Imo you can always trust PUG DPS to be PUG DPS, however pug healers can be very slow on the heals and pug tanks are never really tanks, even I was not an ideal tank as everyone has pointed out.
The prestige class tanks are rare and usually do not have the gear to keep agro from anyone, it's in my experience unusual to see one in a PUG raid.