dear_gnome [sockketeer]

Dear (Mostly Warrior) Tanks of Wrath dungeons,

I understand learning. I understand human mistakes. I understand distraction, and lag, and alllllll those other icky things that can cause trouble during dungeons. I know. I've raised more than one tank myself. Some of you, though? You need to stop and reconsider your methods, because something you're doing just isn't working. And SOME of you need to stop and consider what you're doing tanking at all. I'm looking at you:

Warrior #1, who couldn't hold more than two mobs at a time and who ninja'd my kitty's agility ring. The ring that was a 25% upgrade for me. The same ring I lost to a different DPS warrior earlier in the day. (What is up with warriors taking all of my agility stuff?)

The paladin, who even with Righteous Fury could not hold a single mob and decided that every last group in the instance had to die. A single swipe should not rip aggro from a paladin like an old bandaid.

Warrior #2, who was fine on trash pulls but apparently got so bored with bosses that the fights turned into a game of sprinting in circles after the Amazing Bouncing Tank and his sidekick, Whirly-Cleave.

Warrior #3, who was allergic to thunderclap even after it was pointed out that it should be on any tanking warrior's bars, and who could not hold still and kept edging groups backward just out of reach of the melee dps.

And Warrior #4, who had the healer scrambling to compensate for tanking cooldowns that were not being popped, who took minutes, plural, between pulls, who held aggro like a wet paper bag, and who stood there with a thumb in places unmentionable when aggro (and mobs) inevitably scattered everywhere.

Tanking. It takes more than two braincells and the spasmodic twitching of one's caffeine-jittery fingers. Warrior tanks especially need to be paying some freaking attention. Thunderclap is the closest thing you get to a magic 'everything stays on you 5ever' button. It is not like tanking with a paladin or a death knight. I'm a good little kitty. I scratch things til they're nice and bleedy and make sure to stand behind things (provided you're not dragging them along for Super Spinny Funtimes). I pull my own weight DPSing when I'm not smeared on the floor from pulling off you or being a rescue bear because YOU'RE smeared on the floor.

tl;dr:  Bad tanking should not be so far skewed toward one class that I cringe to see a ragebar when I zone into a dungeon. Please to be using your brains. I know you have them.

-That little white kitty glaring daggers at you all.