How tanking feels post ShB patch

[Valmarus]

Logically speeking on a fundemental level if there was a stance that increases your roles abilities you should want to be in that stance. Healers for example. You want to dps cause you dont need to heal? Be in cleric stance. Youre healing? Dont be in cleric stance. Same for tanks you want to tank? Be in tank stance. You dont need to MT and should focus on damage? Be in dps stance.

See that seems like the proper way to handle it to me, off tank DPSing while the main tank, you know, tanks. I'm not averse to tanks doing DPS, in case I never made that clear. Stance dancing I'm fine with and putting focus on a system where the main tank has to tank stance and off-tank can DPS stance is really the route they should have taken. What I don't like is that they FEEL like a DPS.

As for your later comments about bad tanking, the only issue I ever had with that is if they were bad at tanking and then didn't listen to polite instruction. I don't expect a tank to know how to tank from the start, and I get annoyed with people who treat low level tanks poorly without attempting to tutor. And that's the thing. The only people who came out of Lvl 15 dungeons as bad tanks were lazy ignorent fools. 99% of the tanks I met who couldn't tank those dungeons to begin with were tanking perfectly fine by the end of it. And they were grateful for the advice. That goes a long way of showing how low the entry level skill for hate management was, so nobody should find it intimidating. The Intimidation comes from poor players.