Are you not prepared?

Been a while since I posted one of these.

I don't know how many of you played back in Vanilla, but I distinctly remember the few times I played as a healer. In those days, warrior tanks were the must and I remember one or two times having a party wipe and feeling entirely to blame. I expected the same in WOTLK.

It seems there is a new trend, however, which allows me to get away free from any more guilt or blame. Ask the tank if he is defence cap! It doesn't matter if I stroll up to ToC Hc in blues gemmed with stam! Just challenge the tank's defence cap and all the blame effortlessly slides to them. Is your tank wearing Tier 9? Still challenge their defence cap! There is no limit to your amazing 'get out of jail free' card.

I'm posting this because it is becoming an annoying frequency to have my defence and gear challenged when PuGing content. I know my class and its abilities, I know the different stats a tank should stride to aim for to be able to do certain content. If you want to start challenging my gear I am sure I can find fault with yours. Case in point: Hail was tanking on her alliance (Boo! Hiss!) deathknight and they wiped in ToC Hc on champions. Hail's tank gera on this character has been slowly improving and by now she has reached 'uncrittable', be it with some use of resilience. Two druids in the party were feral DPS. Between them, they managed a staggering 1409 dps. Not each, the two of them put out 1409 dps in total. Hail was almost double their dps as her tank and the hunter there was pulling about 2.5k. The party disbands after three wipes and the first thing to happen in the druid to whispher Hail, are you defence cap?

People in glass gear shouldn't throw stones.