And again with the talking about stuff

So, now that I've been 70 for a bit (and actually awake while), I've been enjoying myself a lot. PvP as a resto druid is fantastic - highlights include carrying flags through an entire ton of horde, controlling a priest wearing what looked to be a lot of Season Three gear until the warrior he was healbotting died (kek cyclone), and running around the Blood Elf tower in EotS, successfully fleeing from a warlock and a rogue. I'm looking forward to when I can get some decent gear so I can start doing arenas.

PvE, on the other hand, is pretty touch-and-go on whether it's good or not. I had today an amazing Botanica run with a prot paladin tanking, possibly the best prot paladin I've ever grouped with. He was damn easy to heal - a single lifebloom stack kept him up on everything except Sarannis, where I threw about three rejuvs as well as the lifeblooms, and during Thorngrin's enrages. And also - he could hold aggro on more than one mob at once. This is very much a paladin virtue, but oh GOD the difference between him and the other tanks I've grouped with today was so much in the fact that I wasn't pulling healing aggro.

I'm now going to rant, mostly about bad tanks. Feel free to close your browser if you don't want to listen to me complain.

I hate incompetent people. This is not largely because of the fact that they are incompetent - it's largely because of the fact that their incompetence continues. It's as if they don't want to become better. This is mainly directed towards bad tanks, since I'm still pretty annoyed at this one particular one, but also includes DPS who sit below the tank on the damage meters, healers who stand there as people die - or alternatively, use the wrong heal for the situation and go oom when the boss is at 70%, and people who clearly haven't put the thought, research, gold, time, and effort into their characters. I mean, how many people do you see with stupid enchants, green-quality gems in epic gear, talent specs that don't make sense (10/20/31 priest? wtf is that?), and, for people who have been 70 for a while, those still don't have all their heroic keys - after they were changed to Honored reputation. Honestly.

I mean, if the healer is pulling aggro from mobs you're ostensibly tanking, shouldn't you try to generate threat on them? Shouldn't you intervene to them and taunt them off? Shouldn't you stun them with concussion blow? A warrior has so many tools to keep mobs either hitting him, or at least not hitting the squishies, not using them is just... stupid, lazy, whatever.

Maybe I'm just an elitist. At any rate, the point when I don't need to pug five-mans is a point I'm looking forward to.