Quote Originally Posted by TankHunter678 View Post
Even paladins know that the best way to protect an ally is not just to shield them from blows, but to also kill the bastard trying to kill them in the first place. If you are only good at blocking the guy trying to kill your ally then you wont be able to protect your other allies from the rest of the enemy group. If you cannot protect your allies... then you are pretty bad as a tank.
Ah, 'good offense is the best defense' and all that? Sorry, I've never bought that as far as tanking goes - those who want tanks to deal high damage as well to me are usually just either a), fairweather tanks who only tank grudgingly to avoid long queues on Duty Finder/to get the 'adventurer in need' bonus for roulettes but really want to DPS.... or b), are extremely lazy DPSes who can't be bothered actually doing their own jobs and want others in the party to do it for them to allow them to slack off. It's just as bad as the idiots who demand healers DPS as well even while they're desperately trying to keep their party alive.

But whatever, I've said my opinion, take from it what you will.