Quote Originally Posted by Ossington View Post
I would argue that a healer trying to dps while healing makes a lot less sense then a tank sacrificing some excess hp to improve their damage, especially when you consider moves like inner beasts where more damage equals more mitigation, or Living Dead where having more hp can be a hinderance if the healer can't heal you to full quickly.
The problem I think is most tanks are getting a lot of really bad advice and don't understand how to apply it. Tanks right now seem to have an obsession with dps. The person you quoted was talking about wars tanking in deliverance. In other threads on this forum you have tanks saying to turn off their tanking stances in DF for more dps and if the healer can't deal with it they're bad healers. An extra 100 hp on inner beast isn't doing anything at all. When tanks are so obsessed with dps they won't put their tanking stances on, then something is just wrong. That's like a healer refusing to turn off cleric stance. I do think the wrong message is being sent to new tanks because there are a lot of very very very bad tanks tanking expansion content.