Minor Complaint/Mini Rant

[Nektulos-Tuor]

1) Hate generation has never been a tank problem.
2) DPS doing more DPS doesn't make healer/tank DPS less important.

Tankbusters don't even mess with tank DPS. You DPS just by doing your job in the first place. Stronger tankbusters has been the name of the progression game since 2.0. It doesn't matter because no fight has such constant damage outflow that "average" tank mitigation matters. It only matters for those busters and you have more than enough cooldowns for them no matter what your job is.

Getting rid of high DPS checks isn't going to happen either because it's the only way SE knows how to design a fight. Too bad you can't have parsers to help refine play.

Increase DPS enough and you will rather take more DPS and have them tank it instead of a tank. Which happened in some MMOs. =)

Which can happen here.

[Sapphidia]

Increase DPS enough and you will rather take more DPS and have them tank it instead of a tank. Which happened in some MMOs. =)

Which can happen here.

I think it was in Aion where the Templar was the designated tank class, but the difference in survivability between a plate clad shield-wearing Templar and a leather clad Assassin dpser was really small. At one point groups just werent taking tanks at all and were relying on Assassins to tank, simply because they did the most damage and it let them push encounter dps much harder.

As a Templar main, my role was relegated to throwing on a two handed sword, gearing for crit, and being a DPS/offtank whilst the assassins did the maintank job. It wasnt fun.

[Duelle]

Agree with the OP. It saddens me that this is no longer something to laugh at, and instead became the way some people expect tanks to play.