Quote Originally Posted by Hierro View Post
What about poor ol' grandpa with the aching hands? What about poor ol' timmy with cerebral palsy and their special headpiece? Come on. They don't make a quarter of bad tanks, or even a fraction of that. The chances that these people have a legitimate excuse to play poorly is abysmal. Besides, did I outline a complex process to DPS tanking? Seriously, all I outlined was turning on sword oath/deliverance/turning off grit. Just like that, your low-dps tank suddenly becomes a mediocre dps tank. Nowhere did I outline an increase to whatever APM these bad tanks have. If a shield oath pld wishes to spam their RoH combo all day, they can do so in sword oath just the same.

A SINGLE BUTTON PRESS DURING CASUAL BOSS ENCOUNTERS is all I ask for. Is that too much? Is it not lazy or ignorant to not do a button press?
Or it's possible I drew every example directly from people I know, making your "abyssmal" odds claim seem a lot less plausible.

As for the one button, no. The flaw there is the claim they can still play the exact same. If said tank is stressed and struggling to hold aggro prior to the boss, I am fairly certain doing the exact same thing, pressing the exact same buttons in the exact same intervals would result in them losing aggro. You can suggest they play the same, popping cooldowns as needed and such, but that is not the same as clicking a button and doing things the exact same ways. If the tank is already stressed tanking the boss in shield stance, don't you think changing to DPS stance would make that apprehension all the worse? There is a measure of adaptation required. You may think such a thing easy enough, and for many players you'd be right. But not for all.