On the Off-Hand
Unfortunately, moving demands yet more of me, and I will be travelling the rest of the week. There will be no strip on Friday. Sorry gang.
Unfortunately, moving demands yet more of me, and I will be travelling the rest of the week. There will be no strip on Friday. Sorry gang.
This is probably the best thing for Keran, honestly. She gets to learn without the chance to screw up as much.
I loved being off-tank when I started raiding. Plus our main tank was so geared I got easy epics.
I enjoy offtanking in FFXIV.
I basically just sit there cheering the team on.
Guild drama!
B-but… no one likes to be left-hand.
Speak for yourself! Granted, off-tanking doesn’t apply in WoW anymore; who does what depends on who has the least stacks of a debuff at the time something is needed….but back when off-tanking was a seperate role with distinct jobs for a given boss, I LOVED off-tanking, because it meant I actually did stuff other than standing there and letting the Big Bad beat on me.
Agreed! There used to be a lot of fights like that.
Also, it’s usually the main tank who gets stuck telling the DPS “don’t do that” over and over and over. Off-tank gets time to get a drink instead. Win!
I am suddenly absolutely terrified of the possibility that Keran will ask xMurderbanex to explain.
Or Castor.
That would be interesting given that she doesn’t know he sold her out to Orhan.
I’m not entirely certain that she’d be any more irked at him for that than she was over the gold bikini…
she should’ve said that 99% of raid bosses require two tanks. Which is true.
Do like the OCW tabard.
Also – poor Keran, she’s got an incoming raid terminology salvo.
Main and off tank lost much of it’s weight. They sort of shuffle around now. The only difference is in who starts tanking, ultimately. No need to hurt Keran’s feelings you big meanie. 😉
Love the tabard though. Meanie.
This is mostly true, at least in WoW. The tanks do pretty much exactly the same things, its just a matter of who is doing the pull timers for the most part. Except my raid group. I do the pull timers (and ready checks) as an ele shaman because otherwise we’d be sitting around way too long.
One of our tanks has gotten a little better about being speedy though.
Off Tank? More like Tank Off! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Man, I guess table top games elude her too. NOOB
Table tops never had tanks. They had a whole bunch of people desperately trying to kill or trick or run away from the Big Bad Monster that the Insane GM threw at them. The only real “role” in a fight was the healer classes.
At least, until the last edition of D&D stupidly tried to turn it into table-top WoW, anyway. Gah.
Back in my day, I called myself a co-tank because it sounded better than off-tank. Come to think of it, everybody called us co-tanks except for the warrior who my paladin eventually replaced.
I don’t think that this will end up well for anybody involved…
Idk, I don’t think Keran has enough of an ego to be mad that she’s the “off” tank as long as she still actually gets to play. It’s not like she picked tank to be the most important person, she picked tank because it fit when she thought they’d need and what she wanted when her and Vedrana started playing.
The situation could’ve been handled better though, for sure.
Hmm, you know I can’t really see what’s the big deal. Isn’t it just that the main tank pulls and off tank handles the loose adds? Not much need for drama.
Well…if you don’t *know* what the roles are, “off-tank” can sound a lot like “second-rate” — ie, “you’re not good enough to handle the REAL work”. I mean, that’s what I thought off-tanking was until another tank explained things to me.