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Thanks for the support, buddy. I swear that I'm naming my next tank "Button Masher" though. LOL

Indeed, thank you BB.
Agreed.

That's when the meleers need to trust in the skills of their fellow league-mates to buff/heal as needed.
Not true in my experience. I believe there is a tohit check (or something) involved with sequestration, as I have often seen while being held that only a few surrounding players were also held, while others continue to fight. But does that mean their DPS is negated/ineffectual regardless? I don't know.
Xactly, thank you.
Indeed, who's got time to sleep at the wheel? 10 seconds ain't that long. Perhaps my LOL at the end of "while we melee-types stand there and enjoy the comfort of a few seconds rest." didn't convey my sarcasm enough?
By no means did I mean to imply I just sat there and waited it out. I scan around and check other league members status/aggro/battle situations, watch to see where I need to pull aggro from and prioritize as first/second/third in order to action as soon as the hold is done, etc. Non-button mashing stuff to be sure.
Love it! Live it! Thanks Beorn. PS - I'm stealing your awesome quote for my signature! LOL

LMAO! Blindly button mashing?! So that's what ya think I do, eh? Interesting.
I never said anything about this being a choice made by pride. That's your assumption. Fact of the matter is, pride has nothing to do with it. Pressing wasd, (which activates powers for me btw because I don't use default settings), by which I assume you mean somethin' along the lines of turn tail and run, is always an option. I'm not saying I have never back-offed when the sequestration warnings happen. I play the moment and make the decisions that I feel are needed.
There we go again with the mashing. Wow, obviously you're prejudiced against tanks, or is it just me you don't like, since you seem to find it necessary to belittle and demean?
I do care if 7 other people are held. But let me ask you this, when you're standing next to a guy in a fire-proof suit while someone's aiming a flamethrower at him, do you hide behind him or do you get the hell out of the way?
Because 50% of the time when I have backed-away and taunted/attacked the reinforcements (which I actually also do during my blind button mashing) I still have the AVs aggro, still get held (sometimes along with the ranged fighters that were safely behind me), but now lose the AVs aggro, the AVs separate and go after squishies, players die, there's screaming, crying, etc etc LOL yeah, so chaos ensues. Hopefully there's one of my fellow button-mashing tank buddies there to keep things together for the rest of the league, but I've seen things go south many a time for less.
Yup, discussion/debate, other opinions and strategies.
Bad tactics? Hmmm, quick poll people...off the top of yer heads, how many successful BAFs have any of you ran with me? How many of those have been badge runs where you got the badges? How many of you received Master of BAF while leagued with me? How many of you have seen me button-mash a really frakked up aggro situation into a win scenario? I believe even you, Strato my friend, have to raise your hand aye.

Sequestration, in my opinion, does not pose enough of a threat now to justify retreat. If I were not lvl 53 and still just lvl 50 without any incarnate level shifts, certainly I'd react/play differently and back-the-hell-up because, as I fondly recall, I died several times when BAF first came out due to sequestration. But, now that a large majority of us are sporting shiny new incarnate powers/abilities/lvl shifts, I can rely as much on my fellow league-mates skills as they can on mine to play through it with little impact. Now, when I do get sequestered, I don't die nor do my league-mates that are held. Prior to being sequestered, I taunt and attack, so that when I am held, I continue to hold aggro through the duration of the hold. I'm one of those tanks that always 6 slots taunt because I feel it's one of the most important of our button mashing skills. LOL It would be much different if I ignored the sequestration warnings, and then there was death and chaos as a result, but that doesn't happen. Granted, the rare odd death due to squishiness/incarnate lowbness does occur, but usually when together with my regular league-mates, there are no deaths, and we win quickly and efficiently, period.

Your opinion is noted Strato - so does that mean you won't be asking to join my BAF's anymore? I hope this isn't the case my friend.
In general? So then, you're saying I specifically tank poorly. Copy.
o.O seriously? LOL geezus
Full brunt = no big dent = bad tactics. Your logic is sound. <--- note the sarcasm
Why didn't you just say that to begin with and leave out all the other crap? LOL
/e button mashes "Tanks buddy!"

LOL trust me, it happens.

This being posted in the Guardian server section, and your forum name, made me LOL.

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