Quote Originally Posted by Yorumi View Post
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I agree that tanking in this game is a lot of DPS but what TouchandFeel meant is that the first things you wanna do as a tank is make sure you have agro and make sure you're surviving hits. If you don't do that don't even think about DPSing as a tank. Yeah, having agro and surviving is easy in this game and doesn't take a lot of effort but it's still the first thing you should prioritize. And when some bad try-hard-to-dps-tanks are focusing entirely on DPS and totally ignoring mitigation generally, even if it's in an expert dungeon, they take buttloads of damage and I'm pretty confident that they would never be considered a better tank by the community.
The best tanks are those who are capable of achieving high DPS while performing its primary tank job perfectly at the same time, but if I see a tank who is not capable of doing that, I much prefer seeing him actually survive the fight by playing it safe than dying while trying to DPS, thus slowing everyone down even more than if he played it safe. And I'm part of the community who promotes tanks wearing STR and DPSing.