Tank adjustments we can agree on?

[Shurrikhan]

This is a fair sentiment, but when it starts leaking from one tank to the others, there's a serious problem and it needs to be dealt with.

I'm not opposed to a tank designed around stance-swapping, as long as that gameplay is limited to that class alone and not trickle to the other tanks nor lead to situations where the other tanks have to emulate that one tank to remain competitive.

Why should it be limited to one tank though? Even if it doesn't come exactly as "stance-dancing", should only one tank be allowed to sacrifice mitigation/restoration for extra dps? This could be something like Rampart and Flight or Fight being buffed but sharing CDs - it could be letting your mitigation combo fall off in order to get in an extra dps combo, but to a more significant extent. It's the option of taking advantage of windows of opportunity for increased dps when mitigation/restoration needs are reduced or less rigid - what we'd typically just call adaptability in a healer, etc.... Should that really be job-unique?

Edit: Though I will admit, with as huge as the difference in dps from stances are, it would be pretty-hard to compete via other methods without substantial revision, so improving stance-dancing for PLD and DRK would seem the most pragmatic solution. That said, I feel there are still plenty of ways to keep each job very unique in the ways they stance-dance, if people would just stop asking for transfer of, rather than equality to, WAR's oGCD stance-dancing benefits (which, given Defiance's ramp-up or potential health-loss in swapping to Deliverance, is still not as great as people make it out to be).