Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
I mean... There's a pretty big gap between reducing aggro as a "mechanic" and deleting tanks entirely. I'm sure you'd love for the boss to endlessly spin around changing aggro targets while trying to get your positionals off as a DRG.

I understand the sentiment of wanting to be a "tank". I stopped tanking back in HW because of the tank dps meta, I figured if I was supposed acting like a dps I might as well be a dps so I switched to DRG main. But at the end of the day, for every 1 person that feels that way there's at least 10 that would rather focus on DPS. It's a numbers game, and SE has to make money. They gave us what the majority of players wanted (and how they played anyways) and it's been a pretty big success. Tanks are as popular as they've ever been (even if some of it came from healer fallout), so it's not like it "doesn't work". It works a lot better, in fact, so OP should just let it go and accept the meta of tanks being a contributing member of the raid team.
To be fair, I dislike Positionals. Not like actively HATE them but I don't like them much either. I'd rather have the boss/fight control more where I go than my own abilities. Make the Fight my Positionals basically. That and it's really annoying when doing solo content and I can't get those off.

Also Tanks are only more popular now because it's stupidly easy to do thanks to not needing to worry about Aggro anymore and healers can "Just heal like they always wanted to" so most tanks also don't pop CD's as often anymore. Tank is popular because it's a DPS that you don't have to do anything with. And if that's the accepted money making solution that will keep the community happy, might as well Axe the role entirely I say and just let someone be "MT" at the start of a fight. That or just have the PLD do it as it's the 'best one' right now.

There's also "Poster/New boy" flavor of the month as well. Now I'm not saying DRK and GNB are bad, but one is the poster boy of the expansion and the other is shinny new thing. Lot of DRGs and DRK back in Heavensward and lot of RDM and SAM in Stormblood.

I find it kinda funny actually. Community pushes for Tanks to do DPS, tanks get changed to do DPS, and one of the complaints I'm seeing while it isn't very common it's common enough is "Why aren't Dungeon Tanks using CDs?" Why should they, they do sick damage now right that's what the push was for right?

I don't know a good answer or fix is for this but I will say I don't partially feel "Tanky" this expansion outside of TBN but if that doesn't get hit with a nerf bat sooner or later, I'll be surprised. Mind you I say this as a PLD in the 50s and a WAR not too far behind. The lower levels feel a lot worse to me now than they did before so hey, maybe it gets better.