Quote Originally Posted by YitharV2 View Post
I agree that DPS is also the meta in TERA, but it has a lot more skill required even before getting into maximizing DPS.

Obviously in TERA, once you practice and memorize a boss' patterns perfectly then you have to optimize DPS to push yourself further, but before that point, you can push yourself by just sticking to pure tanking.
Well that's pretty much what it's like here, no? You can't tank savage bosses out of tank stance before you memorized the attack patterns perfectly and coordinated mitigations/heals for the whole fight. Just because it's optimal doesn't mean everyone and their grandmas can tank out of tank stance. If it's worth anything, nearly every single pug creator/midas savage clears I've been in had what I consider turtle tank as the "MT", and I'm sure the number of tanks who have done a12s with both tanks completely out of tank stance is ridiculously low. Yeah to be optimal you need to not use tank stance, but the majority of the playerbase aren't skilled enough to be pushing themselves at that point.