Boycotting Warrior 4.0 (Let's do it!)

[aleph_null]

It's far from impossible. They designed PotD to be tackled as a 4-man team, yet some people are doing it solo. It's also not unheard of teams doing dungeons and raids with the less number of teammates when one disconnect, too. So, a skilled team might reduce their number of healers or tank because they master their job and the fight.

Non standard composition is not something you'd even remotely consider when you're progressing in a content. It's only something you'd do post clear. Allowing the possibility of a turtle tank solo tanking fights, or a pure healer solo healing fights would require the fights to be designed without mechanics that require two tanks or two healers, which is quite the opposite of what the devs have been doing until very recently (a12s adds, chastening heat for example, are things that require two tanks that you can't really bypass by tankiness alone, you need some weird tricks like putting shadewalker on a dps or skipping the mechanic completely by killing the boss quickly). No matter how tanky a tank is, or how big the heal numbers of a healer is, you won't bring a single tank or single healer composition into a new raid content since you never know if there's any mechanic that require two tanks or two healers.

What's important is not how many people managed to do it, but that stance-dancing is necessary for optimal result. It's not a gameplay choice. If you can't do it, then it means you lack something.

Stance dancing is necessary for optimal results, but you need to remember that optimal results are also out of reach for the majority of the playerbase. 90% of the DF/RF/PF groups I've seen don't even optimize enough to clear raids out of tank stance. Yes, it means you lack something. So what's wrong with that? 99.99% of the playerbase are worse than the top tier world first raiders or speedkill groups. They're lacking something, either as dps, tanks or healers. But so what? You're not required to be as good as them to clear contents. No offense to you, but if you haven't even tried clearing a12s without tank stance then probably you don't even know that you're good enough to clear it even if you turtle tank there.

[Alphras]

Non standard composition is not something you'd even remotely consider when you're progressing in a content. It's only something you'd do post clear.

Well there was T8, so single tank progression is not unprecedented.