Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[Astral145]

Ok I get that everyone should be doing their job. I guess what I don't quite understand is the mentality where if I am doing my job and only my job then I get an A+. If you can tank effectively and do a little bit of DPS to boot then why is that such a bad thing?

Personally I like to use every o-gcd in-between gcd's as I would if dpsing. At the same time I don't like stance dancing unless the occasion allows me to. Not all healers are on the same page and personally making the healer work that much harder to heal the tank doesn't leave that much wiggle room for when dps's get hit by mechanics. You can be the best stance dancing tank out there but if the healer isn't on the same page you might as well leave your best moves for the dance floor.

This is why I prefer mixing up my jewelry vit/str that way I can put out a little more dps and still maintain a nice buffer for when you get one of those healers that zone out and forget how to heal.