Yoshi P's Stance on Pld

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Because "stance dancing" is not intended play despite what hardcore raiders and those that listen to them think. Pretty much every fight is intended to be tanked with Tank stance always up and the tanks only in DpS stance when not currently tanking something. The "have your cake and eat it too"-ness of stance dancing is what is causing much of the disparity between the three tanks.

If it wasn't intended then please captain explain me why there is so many phases where bosses hit like a wet noodle ? Try to beat alex savage DPS checks with the MT full time tank stance without outgearing the fight, and tell me again that stance dancing wasn't intended. Try to meet the DPS checks for Hand of Pain in A3S without having the tanks switching to DPS stance and rotating CDs to not get destroyed by the hands still cleaving them. Hell, I even remember Yoshi P. during a live letter before the expansion talking about Deliverance/Defiance and Grit (Remember that before the expansion, only PLD had a DPS stance) and saying that there will be times where you will want to generate more threat and mitigate damage and there is times where you will want to maximize your damage even as a tank and that's where switching to Deliverance and dropping Grit comes into play, just like Sword Oath always did for PLD. He said that in addition with the moments where you will have nothing to tank, thus implying that MT stance-dancing was completely intended. And I'm glad that it is, it brings more flavor to tanking in this game (which is really easy to do if you don't bother stance-dancing and maximizing your DPS) and increases the skill ceiling, it is all positive.

Yes in other games it could be nonsense to have tanks and healers switch to DPS stances while tanking/healing, but this is FFXIV, allow this MMO to have its own rules. And remember how much damage Paladins did in older FFs. Remember Cecil my friend, remember Cecil. Do you think he would be proud of you standing in Shield Oath and doing no damage ? Do you think Cecil was in Shield Oath when he did back-to-back 9000+ damage crits followed by an insta-holy proc when hitting with the sword Lightbringer ? No my friend. Cecil was tanking in Sword Oath, with the heart of a true Paladin.