Problem is I am one of the main tanks for my group about 50% of the time.
Usually there is me and a monk, or me and a shadowknight, or rarely me and a
ranger. Also backing off does no good. Unless the mob is rooted they
follow me around like puppies wherever I go. This makes it more difficult
for the other tank to melee the mob effectively.
Last night my group was 34 cleric, 33 enchanter, 27 wizard, 26 shaman and I
still took almost 50% of the damage. The wizard was the only one able to
get mobs of me and with her low hp's can hardly afford to do so. Tanking
with a 26th lvl troll shaman was kinda cool, especially since the dwarf was
the tallest among us, but painful. Fortunately the cleric was easily up to
the healing task and even joked about how bards made his job too easy,
generally only one hp bar to watch.
Kit
Also I did try stopping my songs a couple of times, but it didn't seem to
matter. By that time I had probably cast on the order of 25+ spells to
anyone else's 6 or so. Even doing that much less damage didn't seem to
matter. I guess it doesn't help that my weapons proc'ed a total of 9 times
in one fight. (6 Berserks, 3 Screaming Maces) Even though the additional
screams had no effect as I was already buffed I'm sure they still added to
the hate list.
> A bit extreme.. I stop singing all the time to get mobs off me, stop
> attacking too. That doesn't mean I won't start again in 5 seconds, but if
> removing myself from the situation for that time puts the damage back
> where it belongs, it's worth it. A wizard needs to know when to stop
> nuking, a ranger needs to know when to stop taunting, a bard needs to
> know when to stop singing.
>
> Athren
>I have to agree with Athren. A player (of any type) who jumps into battle
with
>guns a-blazin' and doesn't know when to back off is one of the more
annoying
>player types to have to group with. This is particularly true in any party
with
>a healing shortage. By judiciously backing out when I start to attract too
much
>attention, I've cut my personal death rate enormously (5 in six levels, all
due
>to other groups' trains), which, IMHO, is a big benefit to any party. If
they
>have to try to continue without me, or wait for me to return, it's a lot
worse
>for them than getting a bit less assistance from me in any one particular
fight.
> (And it's more fun for me, too.)
>Kenross Cantoforjado, 40 songs, Innoruuk