Today was my first time as a RL on PU group on Heroic Antorus.
Since Antorus started I cleared Normal first week and started on Heroic on PU, could't Kill Argus HC until 2 weeks later but it was fine since then, I was clearing HC for the next weeks (At least 11 or 12 weeks, sometimes I was skipping Coven due to a lot of failers and sometimes I killed Argus only for +5 Trinket).
However the last few weeks on PU groups, there is always some people boosting their friends or guild mates, sometimes their friends got many 880 ilvl items, others don't even make the effort to replace heirlooms, and still they ask for curve and 960+ people, when their group is formed, others don't care if they are boosting, but I do and I hate that.
Today I joined a HC group, the leader said he was 6/11M, there was 2 offline people with 6.5M HP, couldn't see their ilvl or stuff (his mates), and when the group was good, his friends logged with their alts (3M HP or so), he gave lead to someone, and came with his alt too. we had a bunch of 965+ ilvl and the leader with his friends who are lower than 940. Over the last weeks, I tried to tell myself that it doesn't matter, as long as we have good dps and heal for a fast clear, but today, I decided to leave and make my own group.
And by the way I'm a tank with 966 ilvl equipped or 970 ilvl if I use my Pantheon Trinket, but I prefer using 2 stamina Trinkets : Parjesh's Medallion 965 and Eye of Shatug 950, I also use Prydaz that gives 2.75M absorb, I like stacking stamina and mastery + absorb rather than versatilty, and I got 16M HP with flask. (https://raider.io/characters/eu/ravenholdt/Almir)
And so it started, I was checking everyone on raider.io to have 4P T21, at least 75+ Artifact traits and 965+ ilvl with multiclear, but I didn't think about Aggramar later, there wasn't enough CC and no DK for Aggramar. We went on 2/3/14
Everything was fine before Aggramar, we oneshoted every boss easily. After Vari a dps left, but we had enough for Coven, I tried to start looking for a DK at that moment, but people are not very interested to join a PU Coven so we went like that 2/3/13 and it was fine, Coven got oneshotted too.
At Aggramar I started looking for people, got 1 DK, but not enough CC, a druid had to CC 2 adds, we had 2 rogues and they had to CC the same add. Also, as I never was a RL before, I didn't know where to put marks, I asked someone to do them.
Everything was fine, until someone said "Rogue CC X Add", and I started paying attention to the adds, I lost my focus and failed tanking a Foe Breaker, got ress, but accepted at the wrong moment and died, it was a wipe.
Someone left (with a CC) and had to find another CC, got a monk and managed the CC marks again, this time, everything on my side was fine, but we had se much dps, and people didn't stop dps before 40%, it was another wipe and other people left. Third time it was a wipe because the other tank stole my aggro with his dps just before I tank a foe, and it was the third wipe.
The other tank had so much dps, around 1.3M sometimes, while I was on my defensive mode with stamina trinkets and absorb, my dps seems very bad on WL https://www.warcraftlogs.com/charact...venholdt/Almir but does it matter as a tank? I prefer focusing the healing metrics https://www.warcraftlogs.com/charact...kingmetric=hps is it a bad idea ?
On every other boss, I was losing aggro, but it wasn't a problem, but losing it just before the foe oneshotted everyone.
Is there something wrong with me playing very defensive? Should I replace my Eye of Shatug with Pantheon Trinket? Should I focus Vers instead of Mastery, I really like playing my druid with as much HP as possible. There is a bug with WL that doesn't show the Eye of Shatug correctly and don't count it towards my HP, I've got 9.9M HP on normal form and 16M as a bear (19M on World pvp which is very cool as I'm on a pvp server).
Or should I just stay this way and take a tank who's less offensive?
What else can I do to avoid failing like that again?