Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
I don't like this attitude, it puts a lot of pressure on the tank, and probably puts a lot of people off tanking.
Fair enough. And as someone who runs nearly every roulette as a tank, yours is probably the kind of attitude that makes me regret roughly half of the few times I don't tank.

Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
Definitely. A lot of people play this game for fun and even SE themselves have said that everyone is entitled to their own playstyle. If a tank wants to take it slow and easy, no one should be forcing them to play otherwise. Yes encouragement is always good but players should never be alienated for how they play, and it seems a sense of entitlement is coming from those who constantly expect fast runs, or to quote exactly "purpose for being there is to accelerate the run".
You realize that goes both ways, right? If you're the outlier, your right to your playstyle comes at the cost of three to seven times as many other players' rights to theirs.

If you have a shield-capable healer, there's not a single piece of casual content that requires a tank. At some point, one has to point out, if you're both in conflict with the party and outright unnecessary, you shouldn't be expecting not to get the boot.

That's not to say you can't get a party of people who likewise refuse to use Sprint, pop CDs, or pull enough mobs for AoE to outpace focus-targeting. But if that's not the case, one should really check the numbers before insisting that they're free to play however they like it what is clearly not a single player game, especially when their playstyle is characterized, essentially, by detriment, not maximization. Even a lazy party is not going to be hurt by someone being hyper-competent. The reverse, however, is not true.