Quote Originally Posted by SargentToughie View Post
I don't really get what you're trying to say here. If you're trying to argue that tanks shouldn't be focusing on DPSing, you're effectively saying that our tanks have fully complete, fully realized kits at level 30 when their enmity combos are complete and they have their tank stance.

It's obvious that SE's dev team is at odds with how the majority of savage level tanks want to play the game, and I'm hopeful that 5.0 takes steps to unify their two visions for how tanks should play. Hopefully doing so without burning the already scarce few people who already put up with it in the first place.
It's purely simple, tanks focus on mitigation and there's no better mitigation than skipping a mechanic because you pushed a phase with high raid-wide dps. The entire meta for this expansion is high dps = more mitigation. You also need to consider that the hardcore player base has seriously improved since HW. I firmly believe that the current game design resulted in where we are crafted gear being near mandatory or better than their max ilvl counterparts.