Quote Originally Posted by Sapphidia View Post
What IS the current Tank Meta?

As anyone with some 3.0 raiding experience will tell you, the current tank meta is very much focused on DPS. Contrary to how a lot of veteran MMO players might expect to have to build and play as a tank, the way top end raiding works is such that if played properly a tank can contribute a large amount of DPS to the raidgroup's overall total. The catch? In order to do so, they have to sacrifice quite a large amount of "tankiness".
I can't think of a current MMO where this isn't the established 'meta'. WoW scaled back on it kind of hard recently, but at one point tanks were the top dps because of Vengeance, but DPS stacking still exist in Mastery even now.

I get that nostalgia is really strong for a lot of MMO veterans (I've been playing MMOs since 2000 with EQ), but when we're reaching back years and multiple expansions in other MMOs to find comparisons maybe the conversation has gone a bit astray.