Quote Originally Posted by Aniond View Post
The whole issue with Tanking is people forcing a tank to play that way they want not the way the tank wants. The first time as a tank I was told my DPS was low. I switched to summoner. If you want me to DPS then I wont tank. Same with healers. Most people don't like to DPS and Heal.. That would be like saying, " Summoners have a heal so they should be able to heal the raid, even thought its pathtically weak. All DPS should be able to heal then and maintain top DPS.

Its a double standard for tanks and healers...
While I dont know what you have read or not, but the main reason people started to really push for tank/healer DPS, is mainly from 2 things.
#1 Yoshida said, people were beating the hardest content quicker than expected, and BETTER than their own development team, by using a method they never expected.
The raid groups made their healers do dmg between the low damage moments.
So he designed Midas to now require DPS from healers, in order to complete. (Easier content doesnt require this, but it sure helps to get ur practice in on easier content.)

#2 While Tank DPS was already calculated into the required DPS checks, it wasnt calculated for tanks to leave tank stance and keep tanking. But even with healers healing, most DPS werent quite ready for the increase in complexity of thier DPS rotations, so groups needed every bit of extra damage they could push.

So its not BAD to try it, but it does require some failures/wipes, which tanks and healers are already tired of being B*tched at for up till this point, they dont feel like jumping into that kind of BS again. But if you take baby steps, you'll get it (and still B*tched at, since you're not DPSing hard enough as you're learning.)