Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

[Reynhart]

(Case in point: the so-called "dps fixation" was just as present at release; there were just fewer people maximizing their jobs yet and standing as guides to the others. The rest comes down primarily to fight design, one tier in particular, and hype's positive-feedback loops.)

People mostly didn't realize that because we only had two tanks and two healers, and stacking was a bad idea, so none of them was excluded for the sake of maximizing DPS.

What bothers me, though, is that tank optimization doesn't have to focus solely on "how long can you avoid tank stance ?". Stance dancing is the most blatant way of increasing personal DPS, but personal DPS doesn't really matter. If you have to lose 10% of your DPS to increase everyone else's by 5%, it's a legit trade. That's why I'd like to see tanks' tools adjusted to offer a different contribution to raidwide DPS.

As for DPS stances, the only real reason we have them is that low-level tanks shoud not be as powerful as DPS. Apart from that, it would be easy to have "tank stance" and "no stance" modes...which is technically what DRK has.