Tank Stances.

[Yorumi]

"But it would make the jobs boring!" Maybe, but it would let people focus on tanking, and it would get the Eliteist Tanks to stop crapping on people who don't agree with their balls-to-the-wall max-DPS-or-git-gud philosophy.

It's not so much the dps meta responsible for this. In swtor back when I played you couldn't take tank stance off in fights but tanks were still concerned with maximum output. You had to have absolutely perfected openers and rotations to keep the hate off the dps, especially the opener. If you didn't push as hard as you could it had a cascading effect through the raid lowering overall raid dps and hitting enrage timers.

Look at it another way, imagine if dps classes were all saying "ugh what's with this push to do good dps, I don't care if I'm 30% lower dps than I could be, who cares, I don't want to do all that positional stuff or worry about a good rotation." Or better yet "I don't feel like dodging aoes, it's not my job to reduce damage." Pretty sure the party and the forums would be screaming at that person. Well do you see the parallel?

While I certainly don't condone the kind of behavior some engage in when another member isn't performing at absolute peak, I do understand the frustration people feel when others are suggesting they want to perform 20-30% below their ability. A big problem is people using a preconceived notion of a job and using that as the end all be all metric of judging it. If the meta were to change and tanks were required to stay in tank stance going all out to hold hate and prevent damage, and healers were expected to be casting a heal every gcd to keep people alive, you wouldn't accept a tank who's losing hate all the time and taking so much damage he either barely survives or doesn't at all. Likewise you wouldn't accept a healer letting people die cause they're just standing around doing nothing. Yet make that "do dps" and suddenly it becomes so awful to expect that of players.

As I said we shouldn't insult, but I also don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to improve and use the abilities of their class. when someone is farming expert I don't find it unreasonable to expect them to have progressed beyond spamming two combos like a robot.