Why a tank need to dps at all?

[Rennies]

I'm not getting the joke.

She's making fun of some idiotic healer who said basically the same thing in another thread.

[Shurrikhan]

She's making fun of some idiotic healer who said basically the same thing in another thread.

Sorry I don't check people's post history every time I make a reply.

(Oddly enough I do most times, just not that one.)

Edit: Since you seem to somehow take this personally on I'm-not-even-sure-at-this-point-whose behalf, my post was in response to the person I (gasp) quoted, whose sarcasm, given its exact similarity to other non-sarcastic posts of the same content, was ambiguous to me, not to the OP, whose sarcasm was clear.

[Darkstride]

These forums need a "clutter" sub-forum where threads like this can go to (hopefully) be ignored and die.

[Yasuhiro]

Low-tier bait, OP.

Low. Tier. Bait.

Looks like you and 40 others are the only ones who took it seriously.

[Ophiel]

Is not that WE have to dps while tanking, but sometimes, like in roulettes, it helps if we DPS cos the the things just go faster. like it or not, as a WAR, when we have a good enmity we can deal some good DPS to help the party go on faster.

[Galaktica]

Looks like you and 40 others are the only ones who took it seriously.

...h-how did we take it seriously?

[Yasuhiro]

I dunno sounded like you were reacting seriously to what was a response to a silly healer in another thread when this thread is a joke one.
Wouldn't surprise me if there were people like that tho, cant tell with this place anymore.

[Awful]

No wonder the devs think we're bunch of lazy entit- oh wait we are crap, well if you're in my group and you're the OT doing less DPS than the healers you're getting a swift boot from the group. As a warrior you have no excuse they are literally the best tank in the game might as well play a crafter and stop wasting our time in duties. I really wish people use their toolkit instead of ignoring half of it that's why we have Ice Mages, healers who don't DPS, bards with their voices silenced, and tanks who wanna sit there and be a slow ass turtle tank, there's no drive to be better in this game for the run of the mill person.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Better not get in a group with me then. I am there to tank and keep aggro not dps. I do not dps on my tanks, if I want to dps then I will go on a dps job.

There is no requirement to dps as a tank, our job is to keep aggro so they can do their job.

Id like to present a hypothetical.

Lets say you run with the some group on some sort of raid content, time after time.

After the 3rd threat combo, lets say your group is so far behind in threat, you KNOW you cant lose hate, even if you did nothing, because one day lag hit too hard, and you literally didnt do anything for 20s. Yet after the lag, you were still miles ahead in threat. (I know its exaggerated)

You can either
(1) use a threat combo
or
(2) use 1 single DPS combo

during that same point in the fight, each time u get there in future runs.

You already know whats going to happen, but do you purposely choose to use a threat or a DPS combo there?

This is basically what is being asked here.

In similar context, if you were a PLD, and you were fighting a boss with no adds, and a DPS check, would you either
(1) spam flash (as it generates more threat than a full threat combo in 3 GCDs worth of time) until out of MP, use threat combo, until you can flash againm repeating a flash every time you gain the MP for it. (Excluding when FoF is up, as im not sure if this beats Flash in threat or not anymore.)
or
(2) Use your threat combo only, never using flash on a single target, despite being less over all threat, but higher DPS?

Im fairly sure what you already do, and if you do these things, you're honestly already trying to do what people are asking of you. (They arent trying to force anything crazy, just that people use the highest damaging attack, AFTER they have both Threat, and Survival handled.)

[Rennies]

Sorry I don't check people's post history every time I make a reply.

(Oddly enough I do most times, just not that one.)

It has nothing to do with this guy's post history