Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
Putting that responsibility only on the tank only encourages freeloaders. I'm not saying tanks need to be nerfed to the ground, but a high-performance tank needs to perform at around the level of an adequate (but low) performing DPS.
That's exactly where we're at right now, though. At the current time, a tank deals about 65-75% of the damage that an equally proficient DPS does, and that doesn't take into consideration raid utility buffs like Trick Attack, Battle Litany, Piercing Debuff, or whatever else you feel like throwing onto the pile. I'm of the opinion that tank damage is exactly where it needs to be, relative to dedicated DPS-es.

And that underperforming party members thing can go for everybody. There's a reason that the "tales from the duty finder" thread is 2k pages long. This game has a massive issue of people just not playing up to par even for basic content and it's really dragging down the playerbase.