Quote Originally Posted by Aana View Post
There are a lot of things you can do if you are OK with tanks doing damage. But they do still need to make a distinct difference between a DPS and a tank or we will just have 6 tanks and 2 healers doing everything.

They started with the traditional tank role, but players found a way around it and had fun doing it. Now they decide if they force tanks to do as they were designed, or follow the playerbase that grew around the idea of DPS oriented tanking.
I agree with you and not saying that tanks should be the end all be all. But even if you eliminated the current damage penalty tanks will still fall short of a DPS. DPS stance as we currently call it as far as I am aware still doesn't put out as much as a RDM.