Shortage of tanks a myth - thoughts?

[Gardes]

I think the reason most tanks have trouble in dungeons because they geared up poorly. Most non i130 tanks I see in DF chose to pour all their poets into their armor first instead of weapon and leave their weapons at zenith/atma or weathered soldiery weapon. IMO they should dump their poet first into their weapon and pour all their soldiery into armor until they can use poets on it (seriously guys, don't be stubborn with your relic, you can use them at the last boss to get the lights). I see DPS doing the same thing but them performing low isnt immediately apparent on the aggro management side and even questioning them is usually seen as harassment so they got nothing to worry about there.

There's also the way tanks are taught to tank in low level where aoe enmity actions are used to gather the mobs and keep them in tow every few actions and you use single target combos to generate the majority of their enmity, which generally doesnt work that way in post 50 anymore, where aoe is the primary enmity generator and combos are for managing resources and mitigation.

Lastly, some tanks that multi pull don't even bother to tag the mobs they pull and just expect them to follow the tank with just the encounter enmity, stop the pull and then start generating aggro. It seems risky to me because you never know how healers will react. Healers that doesn't notice or know will try to heal the tank before he starts throwing out his first aoe enmity move and grab all the aggro immediately, if the healer doesnt die there, the mob positioning is likely now ruined because some mobs are tagged and stuck to the tank and some don't and you spend extra time trying to get mobs shift 3 steps over and make the dps miss their ground aoes. If the healer notices and doesnt heal the tank until he tags all of them, the risk of the tank immediately dying is pretty high. Throwing extra lobs or aoes along the time makes resource management harder but with how hard tanks generate aoe nowadays (as long as your weapon isnt crap) it shouldn't matter much imo.