Myself as a tank most of the time, hate bds the most. Why? Because out of 10 bds, 9 of them would go in and engage the boss first before the actual tank goes in, after 3 seconds of fight, the threat returned to the actual tank, and the bd was not even on the dps meter. This applies to most bd, but does not apply to the ones with high gears who can over threat a lot. However, the top geared people generally have a good understanding about the “Tank goes in first” since they do high tier raids a lot. Most importantly, if you are not doing a lot of dps and you rush in first, you are not helping at all, instead you are slowing it down.
Now, why tank goes in first? As a good tank (religiously tank), their roles are to let the boss focus on them only and to provide a “good dps condition” to the parties; Let the bosses stay where they should, rather than jumping around the room or using range check abilities (this is when the tank or whoever the boss is focusing is too far or too close to the boss, this is based on the nature of the boss, range tankable or melee tankable). Tanks should bait all boss attacks to a specified zone, so the dpsing parties would not get interrupted or cced by boss attacks. You should now understand why being a rushie is slowing down the fight instead of optimizing, if you are still not quite sure, keep reading.
Why first engagers rather than the tank are madafakas? Most of these mdfks does not want to tank at all, they can’t even hold the threat, or sometimes if they do, they just bait the boss attack randomly and hitting all the party members, causing them to be cced and hence reducing their dps output (indirectly slowed down the fight). Maybe the mdfk engager started 3 seconds “early” thinking this fight is going to end 3 seconds early, while the truth is the whole party’s dps is handicapped because of him, but again you really rush for those 3 seconds? (although the actual outcome of rushing those 3 seconds is delayed for more time). Secondly, many players use long soul for bursting, like some spectral blade bm, fire gunner, some phantom sins. If a random mdfk forces a fight, these people would have to follow (the bm would be raging right now since he didn’t go in first as a tank), especially the bm who was supposed to tank. As soon as the tank goes in, triggered long soul, the boss initiates his second attack, causing cc or knock back to him, before he starts to burst and using resists or blocks to counter that (he didn’t have time to, because he was dashing in, if you tell me to hmb start, then you are a selfish ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤). Now, expect what happen next? A bursting class with a long soul in cd, lying on the floor trying to tab up and doing 2k dps (the approach skill), all because of a mdfk. Now is this mdfk really helping or is he just a toxic AHole in the view of these interrupted bursters?
Oh, and sometimes, people aren’t even ready, someone was still running in! He started the boss, oh and one guy said brb washroom, he was the top dps! Gg wipe, nice 3 second quicker engage btw. A dumber case, the boss is supposed to tank at ranged, he jumped in, vice versa, some ranged class started to burst at 16m for a melee boss causing the boss to jump and stunning the whole room etc etc etc. Tons of drama and pepega clowns.
TLDR: if you are doing 10m+ dps in low tier raids or dungeons, ignore this post because you are party’s dps, and you are carrying them.