So... I'm running through Scarlet Monastery in vanilla WoW. I'm with a friend of mine, and we had to pick up a tank because nobody from our guild was available to tank at that level. I was DPS (rogue) and my friend was a Priest. We can't find anybody at this hour except for a Druid. The Druid wants to run SM but doesn't want to tank, but after some negotiation we come to an understanding that a Rogue can't realistically tank all of SM.
We get to Locksey and I realize that our Druid is trying to tank in cat form. This is causing issues for me from a DPS standpoint; I'm a decent dodge-tank but I can't take damage from multiple targets while trying to protect a Priest. I try hard to be patient because tanking can be a bitch, especially with a Rogue who deals high DPS, but trying to keep my threat down while trying to keep the Priest from becoming a crunchy dog treat is causing serious problems for me. After I nearly die, I finally get pissed off and bitch at the Druid.
Me: "I don't want to be bitchy but you really need to tank, I had to tank that whole battle."
Druid: "Tanking is scary."
Me: "I can't tank, I'm a Rogue. The agreement for this run was that you tank. And why are you trying to tank in cat form? Why don't you switch to bear form?"
Druid: "I don't want to switch to bear form."
Me: "Why? It's like ten times better for tanking! Cat form is your DPS form, we already have DPS."
Druid: "Bear form makes my butt look big."
She also doesn't know how to use basic things like Growl. I kind of think I'm getting trolled or she just has a really dry sense of humor because "does bear form make my butt look big?" is a pretty common joke, but after we make it a little way further into SM, it becomes apparent that she's not kidding. So how the hell does a Druid make it to that high a level without any understanding of how to tank or use basic skills? Apparently, her boyfriend leveled her toon for her.
In all fairness, she turned out to be pretty ok as a person. She learned some basic tanking skills and we only died most of the time. :thumbleft:
We get to Locksey and I realize that our Druid is trying to tank in cat form. This is causing issues for me from a DPS standpoint; I'm a decent dodge-tank but I can't take damage from multiple targets while trying to protect a Priest. I try hard to be patient because tanking can be a bitch, especially with a Rogue who deals high DPS, but trying to keep my threat down while trying to keep the Priest from becoming a crunchy dog treat is causing serious problems for me. After I nearly die, I finally get pissed off and bitch at the Druid.
Me: "I don't want to be bitchy but you really need to tank, I had to tank that whole battle."
Druid: "Tanking is scary."
Me: "I can't tank, I'm a Rogue. The agreement for this run was that you tank. And why are you trying to tank in cat form? Why don't you switch to bear form?"
Druid: "I don't want to switch to bear form."
Me: "Why? It's like ten times better for tanking! Cat form is your DPS form, we already have DPS."
Druid: "Bear form makes my butt look big."
She also doesn't know how to use basic things like Growl. I kind of think I'm getting trolled or she just has a really dry sense of humor because "does bear form make my butt look big?" is a pretty common joke, but after we make it a little way further into SM, it becomes apparent that she's not kidding. So how the hell does a Druid make it to that high a level without any understanding of how to tank or use basic skills? Apparently, her boyfriend leveled her toon for her.
In all fairness, she turned out to be pretty ok as a person. She learned some basic tanking skills and we only died most of the time. :thumbleft: