Usually,I am the perfectionist tank in a run.I want things to go perfectly:I want to never lose aggro,I want the DPS to all attack the proper target,I want the healer to,well, okay,I mostly just want the healer to heal us,I am not looking for anything fancy there.As long as a healer seems to be casting healing spells I am willing to cut her or him a lot of slack,especially in dungeons like Halls of Reflection where people often die through not moving out of giant,inky pools of blackness on the floor that they stand in as if they were instead duck ponds full of adorable baby ducklings.There are no ducklings in the fetid wells of corruption,guys.

Last night,however,I had a sort of small revelation.First and foremost,I was stressing myself way the heck out over a pick up group with four folks I was likely never to see again.Secondly,the faster you go in a PuG,the less likely perfection is to be attainable,and if four people want speed and one guy wants flawless,you will get very fast flaws.So that meant I have come up with an entirely new tanking philosophy for the new five mans,and an entirely new way to gear for them.I would talk about both.