MrTPF

And you did exactly the right thing, my respect to you for it. I mean, sure, everyone has the right to play their character the way they want to, the way that fits their backstory, the way they find the most fun. But Teaming is about synergy, working to each others' strengths, adapting your style to make the team most efficient, being smart and flexible with your powersets. Smashing a mob across the room 5m away from the tank just because you like how your fully-KB-slotted Energy Torrent looks is just silly and will get you kicked at best or others planted at worst. I used to run a regular KB-heavy team consisting of 3 energy/energy blasters and a storm/energy defender. Complete mayhem. 200% fun. But even then we still herded and grouped the mobs. If I joined a regular team with a melee nucleus I always changed my playstyle to benefit the tank or scrapper, changing KB into KD with positioning and timing.

Most likely because either they didn't understand the powerset themselves or their experience to date as a tank had been with players that didn't understand how to best use KB with melee team mates.