Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
Oh, there is no doubt that if both tanks are trying their hardest to hold onto mob, the one stacking STR is going to win. That goes without saying.

However, that is absolutely never an issue for a VIT tank, not unless the tank stacking STR is intentionally trying to steal threat away. That certainly doesn't happen when they're "in a DPS stance".. that only happens when that tank (STR, VIT or whatever) is being a grade-A twit and not working as a team.
While this is indeed true, i always let the VIT tank MT.... because whats the point of me tanking when his DPS would be abysmal anyway. However, when I'm sitting there using only SP and SE on my DPS rotation and VIT PLD is sitting on the mob spamming only RoH cause hes so afraid of losing hate, then that is the ultimate facepalm. Not doing your own DPS rotation because your afraid of not being useful is completely silly and I see it almost every single time I'm in that godforsaken Void Ark.

Maybe you don't do this, but I see it an awful lot, and sadly it's primarily PLD's that I see doing it. It makes me sad because I mained PLD for a long time before 3.0 when I was requested to switch. Playing defensively and outputting DPS are not mutually exclusive situations in FFXIV.