(08-29-2013, 09:51 PM)Draheim Wrote: Having dealt with Arcanists and their Carby's, I can tell you this with almost 100% certainty. The Carbuncle simply have a higher threat generation than a GLD tank. That alone, does not make them a better tank. They won't move out of one shot effects, nor pick up adds on the fly.
They also annoy me to no end when I'm trying to do my freaking job as the TANK, and your little rat is ripping aggro off me at the same time the archer is doing the same to a different mob, while the THM is doing it to the third mob!
End rant. Simply put, please, for the love of god and me not tearing out my hair, put your Topaz's away during a dungeon. For those of us that have been tanks for years(myself, nearly a decade across a half dozen or so games), it's nothing but a pest. To those trying to LEARN to tank, it's a crutch that I highly doubt will be viable for higher level and end game tanking, which will result in more and more low skilled tanks when we get to that point.
Please, use your emerald Carby's for dungeons when you have a tank!
I think you misunderstand what I was saying.
I never let my Carby loose in a dungeon. Â Even the Emerald one will knock your mobs back if it gets in melee range. Â However, I keep getting into dungeons where the tank ignores one or more adds and they beeline for the healer. Â In that situation, yes, I will pull the Topaz Carby out and sic it on whatever add is beating the healer's face in.
I do this because it's happened to me as a healer so many times in this game.
Otherwise, when I have my Topaz Carby out, he sits on passive and I actually take a rather large DPS hit for not only having him out but having him do nothing in hopes the tank will do his job. Â The last tank I got on my Arcanist...I don't even know what was on his mind. Â He would RP walk up to the mobs and /wave at them, then hit one and ignore the others. Â What is Flash? Â Oh, I'll use it when the mobs are nowhere near me. Â That's how it works, right? Â Right?
If someone has a Topaz carby out and it's pulling off you, tell them to put it away or on passive. Â But I'ma keep using mine because apparently most tanks in this game still aren't sure how to...well...tank. Â