ill give my opinion (as a pure tank), for me a MT (tank) must be able to do few things,
1) : keep the hate (its kinda annoying to go in for shinryu EX or any omega savage, and behind told right after joining in "please hold the hate properly"), so this, a good tank must not loose hes target hate not matter what !

2) behind able to withstand incoming damage, when your the OT and you see the MT tanking without the tank stance, and taking HUGE amount off dmg (forcing the heal to overheal ...) is kinda annoying ... (do i have to explain why ? ), its frustrating, to wipe because the tank didnt want to use tank stance, and almost get insta killed everytime (or near death) and blaming healer for not doing theire job ...

thats is for me the prerequist to be a good tank, doing DPS come after those 2 point and ONLY after


and last, for me id prefer staying in tank stance and be sure to tank PROPERLY incoming dmg, and releif the Healing stress, and allow healer to eventually do some more dps if he want to


to end this, i cleared shinryu EX with a full grp of I320 ppl, but i keep seeing grp with I330+ wiping miserably in front of it (failing to kill heart in time, adds, etc etc) so yes its cool to have someone that can do some point dmg, but from what im seeing its DEFINITLY REQUIRED, whats is needed its player with brains that is a must have !


PS : srry for my poor English ^^