You didn't specify about tanking, you said that I was wrong about them saying they wanted trinity/triage healing to be more important, and I showed that they were talking exactly about that.
He asked our opinion, I gave it to him. If it wasn't the one he wanted, I can't help that.
Because you're saying it's wrong for the tank to leave because that's not what he wanted to deal with, but it's fine for the healer to do whatever the heck they want, despite queuing up as a healer? If the healer can keep the tank up with no effort, whatever, but the tank was the one ensure their own survival, the healer did nothing except a few healing surges, no totems or anything, AND the clearly said that they "suck at healing". Pretty sure that's obvious that the healer had no intention of ever healing, just felt like dodging a queue.And you're grossly mis-characterizing my statements. I'm clearly discussing an environment where no significant amount of healing is needed and a Tank is completely capable of sustaining themselves. If a healer wants to DPS and no one is dying, who cares? Again, you waste more time trying to kick them or complaining about it than just finishing the run.
Then throw out your argument that it's faster with 4 DPS, because you don't have any actual collected data to contest that it's faster than with a healer.Until someone produces actual collected data comparing the speed of dungeon runs between "4 DPS + 1 Tank" and "Tank + Healer + 3 DPS" across the leveling range, I'm going to consider arguments that "It's so much faster with a healer!" biased anecdote since a geared/experienced leveling tank can do a run without a healer.
Yet the healer wasted no ones time at all? If the healer just did what they queued up as, this wouldn't of happened at all. You're ignoring the fact that the tank DID NOT WANT TO DO IT WITHOUT A HEALER. He wasn't confident enough to, and he didn't want to play like that. If the healer was perfectly fine to say "lolscrewhealing, I'mma dps", why is the tank not justified in leaving because they didn't want to deal with that.Well, we've already done this throughout the thread, but okay: Because he wasted the time of 3 DPS who did nothing wrong and wasted his own time ending a run early when he could have survived fine, gained practice from it, and gained plenty of XP. This is essentially throwing down your controller and saying "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG I'M LEAVING", in an environment where 'doing it wrong' doesn't mean anything and you still win.
I don't see how I'm confused at all, especially by what you quote. He didn't ask if he did the right thing, he said thisYou seem confused. No one is telling him what he has to do. He asked if this is what he should have done. We said, "No" or "Probably not" because it's true. Most of us (if not all) have not proposed strapping him to his chair with duct tape and forcing him to tank this traumatizing experience, but if he asks "Did I do the right thing?" I'm going to subjectively say: "Nope."
If it was one of the better options, since he did not feel comfortable with doing the dungeon with no healer, and you're saying "No, you should of done it anyway". I don't see how that even works honestly, that's like telling someone to go on the worlds fastest roller-coaster despite never even being on a roller-coaster in general.
Granted, it's an exaggeration, but still, you keep talking about in general, and how dungeons are faceroll at this level anyway, and how other's can tank it without a healer, yet you're not paying attention that this thread is not about others, it's about the OP, and his first time tanking in who knows how long, and the only thing he had to go by was a guide he read beforehand.