Tank DPS in casual content?

[Launched]

I find it almost laughable that the hardest jobs to play in the game with the most responsibility are expected by the community to put out DD numbers or they are considered not great.

In what universe is FFXIV tanking or healing hard in any way, or full of responsibility? The tanking and healing mechanics are so simple that 90% of the time, if you only focus on holding aggro or healing, you're simply being lazy. It's like a DRG that spams its True Thrust combo, or a BLM that doesn't use Enochian, or a BRD that only uses Heavy Shot: it gets the job done but you're contributing less than half of what you actually could.

That doesn't mean you should be ending a boss fight with 1.2k dps, but if you only ever just stay in tank stance and use your enmity combo (or spam Cure on a healer) you're not playing your job properly.