Quote Originally Posted by Kothos View Post
And the same mantra is spoken. Could please tell me your experience with tanking so I can understand you

Tank DPS is the meta that *players* derived. But from SE's point of view it's not necessary, it's extra. They said raid boss HP is not alculated based on damage dealt by tanks in DPS stance, but players push MT DPS anyway to beat content faster. Beating content faster or at minimum iLVL is something 1-5% of the player base cares about. SE did not intend for people to beat Gordias sdavage at i170 or whatever the min iLVL was upon release, they expected players to be i190 first from stocking up on gordias normal gear. But players did it anyway at the min ILVL by overmelding gear and pushing tank DPS and using potions.

That's all well and good and from the players POV tank and healer DPS is integtral for that, but not to SE. So saying tank DPS being lower due to STR is a developer's oversight: it's not. It's players assuming the developers should play by the players' rules and not vice versa.

I doubt SE intends for a MT to just do 1 enmity combo in tank stance at the start of the fight and then rock DPS stance the rest of the fight. That's not tanking, that's not managing enmity. That's DPSing with using defensive cooldowns occasionally to lower your healing burden sometimes.