First time DRK tanking. First time tanking anything at all past Sastasha/Tam-Tara/Copperbell.
Say before we begin that it's my first time tanking; ask people to take it easy, and apologise for slowness. (I get lost several times - Haukke Manor lol - but there's a friendly SMN who helps me. I hope he got all the comms and not just mine.)
Healer is AST who is tangibly reluctant to cast anything on me except Essential Dignity. They don't touch their healing spells unless I'm already below 30%, no matter how fast I'm dropping.
I love it when people hear "I'm new, take it easy" and think that means "I love to stress about cycling my cooldowns during every pull when I'm still so early in getting a grip on my basic rotation that I'm constantly tweaking my hotbar layout mid-dungeon".
I mean, I didn't die, so I guess on the one hand I can't complain. (I usually heal and "well, no one died, so it's okay!" is my default response to tank apologising for messy pull.)
But on the other hand, it would've been nice to feel like I wasn't being expected to instantly know how to pro tank, and like I was inconveniencing the healer by wanting them to heal uh, not perfectly weaving my mitigation cooldowns during my literal first ever dungeon as my class.
Say before we begin that it's my first time tanking; ask people to take it easy, and apologise for slowness. (I get lost several times - Haukke Manor lol - but there's a friendly SMN who helps me. I hope he got all the comms and not just mine.)
Healer is AST who is tangibly reluctant to cast anything on me except Essential Dignity. They don't touch their healing spells unless I'm already below 30%, no matter how fast I'm dropping.
I love it when people hear "I'm new, take it easy" and think that means "I love to stress about cycling my cooldowns during every pull when I'm still so early in getting a grip on my basic rotation that I'm constantly tweaking my hotbar layout mid-dungeon".
I mean, I didn't die, so I guess on the one hand I can't complain. (I usually heal and "well, no one died, so it's okay!" is my default response to tank apologising for messy pull.)
But on the other hand, it would've been nice to feel like I wasn't being expected to instantly know how to pro tank, and like I was inconveniencing the healer by wanting them to heal uh, not perfectly weaving my mitigation cooldowns during my literal first ever dungeon as my class.