I don't understand the point of the various tank/dps stances for tanks

[whiskeybravo]

It doesn’t take a college degree and 3 years experience playing lvl 70 FFXIV to comprehend ability descriptions and observe how they work and interact with one another.

Yeah, but you could at least, ya know, finish leveling up your tanks in this game. Otherwise I just don't think you have a complete picture of the tank scene with only 51 PLD, 52 WAR, and 62 DRK.. Like, you're literally in the easiest content in the game.

Tanking needs to be both accessible and rewarding. The basics of tanking need to be easy enough for any player to handle, pick up quick and go. It would be a detriment to the community if tanking was overly complicated early on, it would eventually drive players away and make level/dungeon grinding more miserable than it already is. I'm not saying is "perfectly accessible" right now, there's always room for improvement, but if you were to remove tank stances it would certainly make it less accessible and more complicated, for no good reason.

[zipzo]

Yeah, but you could at least, ya know, finish leveling up your tanks in this game. Otherwise I just don't think you have a complete picture of the tank scene with only 51 PLD, 52 WAR, and 62 DRK.. Like, you're literally in the easiest content in the game.

Tanking needs to be both accessible and rewarding. The basics of tanking need to be easy enough for any player to handle, pick up quick and go. It would be a detriment to the community if tanking was overly complicated early on, it would eventually drive players away and make level/dungeon grinding more miserable than it already is. I'm not saying is "perfectly accessible" right now, there's always room for improvement, but if you were to remove tank stances it would certainly make it less accessible and more complicated, for no good reason.

Again, your ad hom is a poor rebuttal to my (admittedly bulletproof and objective) argument.

So you're worried about it becoming tougher for bad players?

Is that all? I'm just clarifying that this is your entire argument.