Boss Autoattack Damage and FFXIV's Tanking Meta

[Kerrath]

sounds to me then that ff14 is doing it righ then. you mention that the damage penalty is what makes tank stance bad, then what do you want? do you want ff14 become wow mindless tanking? I do like that we have a dps penalty while a bit too much I do like the trade off. so what do you sugest will imporve tank stance beside taking off the damage penalty.

nothing, i think it's fine. the only change i might make would be to maybe make it so that there are too many tankbusters for cooldowns to be enough such that players are encouraged to use tank stance to absorb some tank busters.