Quote Originally Posted by Klongol View Post
Why is it that proper tanking isn't a reward enough?
I'm curious, did you ever try raiding at all during the 3.x Alexander Savage series? Because, in each tier's respective heydays, the fights pretty much required everyone – including Tanks – to maximize their DPS as much as possible in order to clear. This was why Warrior, with its former potential to match actual, albeit subpar, DPS role performance with its damage, was so popular near the end of the previous expansion.

Quote Originally Posted by Falar View Post
You are describing the bare minimum, that's why.

All those things are required to play tank. If you can't do them, you can't tank. Those are the bare minimum requirements to play the role.

What separates the great tanks from the marginal ones is how much DPS they add to the group while accomplishing their role. When the goal is to kill the enemy any extra DPS that can be found anywhere is a huge bonus.
Falar also raises an excellent point. It's not exactly the most difficult thing in the world to fulfill your role as an enmity-generating damage sponge, even while dealing with mechanics, tank swaps, and mitigating busters. However, while it is good, maybe even preferred in some cases, to play your role exactly to the letter as is intended, under most circumstances going above and beyond can, and most often does, make or break a clear on difficult content, just the same as a clutch heal, or even clutch healer DPS, has the potential for doing exactly the same thing. Removing said potential and delegating all of the damage responsibility to its intended role, which is already widely-played by most of the community and replete with below-average performance players, is incredibly neutering and would likely cause a lot more justifiable frustration with the playerbase in general.

I feel like, just in the new Omega raid fights alone, I've already experienced a small handful of situations where the Tanks and Healers of a party pretty much salvaged what would've otherwise been disastrous wipes, even with all four DPS on the floor.