Tank Stances.

[SyzzleSpark]

yeah sure completely right - never said the opposite. and again, if you can deal with that its fine. although its not just deathflare vs. abysaal, there are baned buffed dots, painflare, dbl buffed enkindle, arealslash, shadowflare and bliz spam as well in burstmode... aside of this I just said to tell tanks its totally okay to go off stance is stupid. honestly if we break it down: DDs should deal dmg, tanks should hold the pack. if you can hold it without stance go for it. if the dds or healer have to suffer than just don't do it. - that being said there are many tanks out there who can't deal with that lately - and that sucks. giving those people the feeling they do everything right is just a thing I can't stand as main-dd.

Nobody said we were giving newbie/bad tanks carte-blanche on playing recklessly without knowing what they can and can't get away with. Literally no one said that. What we're saying is that it is possible and it is an admirable goal to experiment with and work towards. It is optimal, it saves time, and IF you know what you are doing, it is totally doable without losing hate or making a healer suffer.

What i personally can't stand as a tank main is when a DPS tries to tell tanks what goals and optimizations they are and are not allowed to aim for. "We're DPS, DPS is in the name of our role, only people with red icons like mine should be allowed to have 4-digit DPS... the rest of you just stand there and Medica 2/Flash while I solo these mobs."

Teamwork, yo.

I frankly don't know where DPS get this mentality that enmity and mitigation are 1000% the tank's responsibility when more than half the other jobs in the game have party-based mitigation and aggro manipulation tools. Like "oh, it doesn't deal damage, I don't need to use it". GTFO.