Quote Originally Posted by Merkava View Post
TL;DR – All tanks should be balanced to take into account both their role as OT and MT, skills should reflect this duality. Currently WAR is the only tank that does this and this is the main reason why it's the king of tanks. The solution to everything isn't MOAR DPS.
And yet more DPS allows a tank to do the same numbers without sacrificing its tanking skills for a minor, minor dps gain. If people were just more comfortable with tank soft-swaps on CD in the first place, you'd likely get more raid dps out of just using Vengeance and Raw Intuition as, shocker, mitigation tools. Pretty much any time that's not the case, you're heavily overgeared or the fight's white or just more frequent-interval damage is undertuned (one of the chief complaints of tanks and healers alike). I've no issue with leaving WAR as the one tank that can choose to waste its MT set for a generally less efficient OT gain.

I'd be cool with seeing skills have a dual benefit that favors OTing or whatnot, but wasting a 15s 30% or a 20s 20% miti just for abandon stacks is not what I'd call a good example.