Comments on: Meet Your Hostess http://www.bananashoulders.com/2007/06/01/meet-your-hostess/ Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:13:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bulshanoi http://www.bananashoulders.com/2007/06/01/meet-your-hostess/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Bulshanoi Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:38:45 +0000 http://bananashoulders.monologous.com/?p=5#comment-6 Off tanks are the nougat in the tasty candy bar most parties end up being. They're there (mostly) to protect the squishy, creamy filling that most primary healers are. Tanks can keep a lot of aggro but with some pulls there just aren't enough crowd control techniques and health/armor to manage all of the mobs at once fighting one tank. When this is the case an off tank will be expected to step up and take a mob or two himself to waylay damage on the primary tank or in a worse situation to prevent them from going after the priest. Off tanks are the nougat in the tasty candy bar most parties end up being. They’re there (mostly) to protect the squishy, creamy filling that most primary healers are.

Tanks can keep a lot of aggro but with some pulls there just aren’t enough crowd control techniques and health/armor to manage all of the mobs at once fighting one tank. When this is the case an off tank will be expected to step up and take a mob or two himself to waylay damage on the primary tank or in a worse situation to prevent them from going after the priest.

]]> By: Siha http://www.bananashoulders.com/2007/06/01/meet-your-hostess/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Siha Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:15:40 +0000 http://bananashoulders.monologous.com/?p=5#comment-5 Off-tanking is basically secondary tanking - in some situations you'll be facing more enemies than your tank can deal with. In those cases, your off-tank will pick up one or more of the left-over monsters and tank them. So an off-tank doesn't need to be nearly as well-equipped as a main tank, because they're not going to be tanking all the time, and when they _do_ tank it'll typically be against the weakest of the collected enemies. Off-tanks are often hybrids - people who are partially specialised (in terms of equipment and abilities) in tanking and partly specialised in some other area, like healing or damage-dealing. Off-tanking is basically secondary tanking – in some situations you’ll be facing more enemies than your tank can deal with. In those cases, your off-tank will pick up one or more of the left-over monsters and tank them.

So an off-tank doesn’t need to be nearly as well-equipped as a main tank, because they’re not going to be tanking all the time, and when they _do_ tank it’ll typically be against the weakest of the collected enemies. Off-tanks are often hybrids – people who are partially specialised (in terms of equipment and abilities) in tanking and partly specialised in some other area, like healing or damage-dealing.

]]> By: Caz http://www.bananashoulders.com/2007/06/01/meet-your-hostess/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Caz Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:36:05 +0000 http://bananashoulders.monologous.com/?p=5#comment-4 I am so n00bed out on the MMO gaming. I get tanking - but what the heck is off-tanking? I am so n00bed out on the MMO gaming.

I get tanking – but what the heck is off-tanking?

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