Just had a pretty entertaining Pharos run.

[stuscott]

But here's the kicker for me. A geared tank, a Warrior nonetheless, not in tank stance, will do great DPS for a Tank class, better than Titan Egi could ever hope to do. So a thought occurred to me, why are they complaining about low DPS, when we could have Titan tank everything, they drop Defiance, and it's like we have an extra DPS on the field? They could be doing great damage without whining about "low DPS", and I actually get to use a pet effectively that gets seldom used in the end.

In essence if I manage him well enough, it's full-proof if the healer can heal appropriately. So why was this such a hard thing to grasp for anyone?

A WAR will tank a whole lot better than Titan-Egi will and Garuda on Obey will more than likely out-DPS a WAR trying to DPS...why not just do the role you queued to do? If you wanted to tank, queue as a tank.

And it's not "fool-proof" as Titan's enmity generation is not as much as a tank class, so while when you solo, you may not steal hate off Titan because you are healing him with Sustain, if you are expecting the healer to heal him, Titan will probably have trouble holding hate as a healer's heals are much stronger than Sustain or even a SMN's weak Physicks.

So we start, I had Titan out because I was doing FATEs, and I had a nagging feeling that I didn't trust the Warrior I had to guard me proficiently when I go all out Summoner DPS, they had 8,800 HP without food it seemed, so clearly well geared and should be able to hold aggro fine. Yet I had a feeling. So I tell them I'm leaving him out until I feel assured that some random add isn't going to rush my way and cleave me when I'm Bane'ing and so on. They all laugh and freak out about a tank pet being out instead of Garuda, I don't much care.

Correct - your attitude here is the biggest offense, in my opinion. If you are as well geared as you claim to be in your post, one or two hits shouldn't be a worry of yours. If you are going "all out Summoner DPS", then you obviously aren't even giving the tank enough time to generate any hate since it takes time to set up DoTs and Bane them. If you are assuming that a WAR can't generate enough hate in more than the 7 seconds it would take for you to do that, considering they can Overpower at least 3 times in that time frame, you would have to be at least 20 item levels above them, which means you could take a hit until the healer can heal you. If you are "leaving Titan out until you feel assured" quite frankly I wouldn't be worried about covering adds off you in this run if I was tanking.