When should I drop tank stance?

[Aana]

And now, part deux:

Aana, outside of Savage content, this really doesn't matter. Seriously, it doesn't. Ok, so you stay in DPS stance the whole fight... And assuming all goes well, DPS uses their enmity reducing cooldowns, your healers are on the ball, etc. etc., your reward for this is... you clear a few minutes faster? Yeah, really.[/B]

In closing, I just want to remind everyone that there are no endless races against the clock in Normal content. No unforgiving timers. No lofty DPS threshholds. So please, stop applying Savage logic to everything, especially when you can't control variables like you can in statics where you get to cherry pick everyone who fits your standards of what the ideal player is. It simply doesn't happen in PUGs, so you adapt and overcome, even if it means you have to sacrifice DPS or carry others.

"There is no NEED to tank outside of Tank Stance in low tier content" message you portray here is NOTHING like your original post that spawned all this.

In Savage content, as MT, two enmity rotations followed by a switch to DPS stance is pretty much mandatory if you want to stand any reasonable chance of achieving sufficient overall DPS. Yes, it is most certainly true that Shield Oath does take away a fifth of your overall DPS, but exactly which stance is optimal outside of the aforementioned content is a decision best left to the tank themselves.

This is flat out wrong. Savage tanking generally involves ZERO enmity combos because in savage, people have to coordinate and work together or they die. This includes enmity.

Now, I'll go out on a limb and say that anyone who does large pulls in dungeons in their DPS stance is a fool.

You have made a number of erroneous assumptions about savage content and called people who mass pull dont without tank stance fools. No one has actually contested that being out of tank stance for low tier content 'compromises runs' as you put it. However you have claimed its stupid too and in came a swath of people who do it on the daily saying thats bunk on top of showing some ignorance of high level play. Someone who says you need multiple enmity combos in savage to have a prayer in savage and offense stance big pulls are for fools is obviously not playing at the top of their game because people are doing it every day without any problems.

Now spinning it around as if we are saying you HAVE to do big pulls and lower content out of tank stance is disingenuous. No one made that claim. We were simply refuting yours. You shouldnt have gone out on that limb without knowing it was sturdy.