NOTANKITIS - Someone call the CDC!!!

I am a tank. All three of my 80's , warrior /pally /dk , all tank. I like being the tank and setting the pace for the group , knowing the fights , and generally being out front of the group , starting the encounters till we defeat the instance.

However , the new Random Group Finder has left me a new malady I call , NOTANKITIS. Sometimes I just would rather beat me head on the wall than to endure the constant series of bad PUG people in the Random LFG now. Here is a short list of my favorites (see if yours is on there)

1. "GOGOGOGOGOGOGO" - typed in party chat from one or many dps - like seriously that is gonna make me pull faster??



2. The DPS that typed the above line decides to pull for you because you are not moving fast enough. Personally my rule is if you pull it , you tank it.



3. They don't know that LOS means Line of Sight. This is my fav on my warrior whose AoE threat is not as strong as the others so I use LoS alot to get things where I want them.



4. DK's in 52/0/18 spec thinking they can throw up Frost Presence and tank FTW.



5. Checking out the players for enchants and gems and seeing empty sockets. Love that one.

Now granted I don't normally get upset or even drop group. I know that everyone has to start somewhere and I like to take a chance at potentially teaching someone a thing or two to leave the virtual world of WoW a better place than when I got there , so I have a pretty thick skin.

However when the wipes start happening like say on the 1st boss of PoS because no one thinks to LoS the boss and drop the debuff on them , or they fail to see the big hunk of saronite headed their way repeatedly , then I start to think about dropping group and just farming till my next dungeon CD is up.

I would rather endure a 10 -15 minute DPS queue for a random where all I have to do is kill whatever I see , than to have the shorter queues as a tank and deal with the above. In fact , I am more inclined to not use the queue unless I have a known healer /dps with me to make sure the run goes better. This causes another problem you see called ORLYIMNOTATANKITIS.

This disease (yes it is a disease!!!) is where you have a person queuing up as a tank/dps when in reality they are not specced to tank nor do they have the gear to tank , they just want the faster queue times. (See above in point #4 ). Now you have a group sitting around playing "Who's the tank??" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ekLO8BwxwE) This creates a vicious cycle or requeing and blame storming and just generally ruins your day.

So the next time you are queued up as dps and you get into your random , give the tank a break , be the pro player you can be , and make the run a smooth one.