Deliverance rant

[Isius]

TBH I much preferred the time when aggressive tanking was not required and was kind of a niche. I loved when back in 2.5x while waiting for the expac, I joined T10-11 farm parties in PF and people running parsers were amazed at me sustaining over 420-450 DPS while tanking T11 out of Defiance and no healer complaints, while most tanks were struggling to do more than 240 DPS. That's how niche it was. Now, a tank doing high DPS in raid content is, on top of being a common thing, actually required. And then baddies trying to mimic the good raiding tanks are being destroyed by trash mobs. Sad.

I think I rather have high dps tanking to have remained a niche thing for the game. I wore full slaying or a mix of slaying/fending accessories back in 2.x, because I loved the idea of being a tank, and being able to dps more after I have gotten a firm understanding of a encounter. It was like a bonus for being a good player. But now it's just mandatory in Savage, and it personally kills some of the vibe/feeling I used to have for it, but that it just me.