How tanking feels post ShB patch

[MerlinCross]

I'm frankly not sure how you can just "feel like you're a dps".

I mean, if you're tanking correctly, you need to be popping defensive cooldowns, positioning, and supporting your party defensively during party-wide damage, etc. Those are the "meat and potatoes" of tanking. Aggro management never was anything of importance or enjoyment.

Literally, at most all you did was one aggro combo on single targets like bosses. In all other circumstances, nothing has changed. Tanking trash hasn't changed at all. So really, the only change in Aggro management between 4.0 and 5.0 is a set of 3 GCDs, or 5 seconds and change.

Well for one I'm hearing conflicting reports on healing to the point that if healing hasn't changed, you shouldn't actually NEED to be popping those CD's. The healer can totally cover for you right it's what they're supposed to do right? And if you're at a point where your CDs aren't expected or needed(Either because healing is that weird now or just simply item level) then all you're doing is playing a meaty DPS. I dunno I'm just hearing odd things about how healing is now and how easy it was to heal before so I'm quesitoning if it's due to the Heals being that strong or the CD's being that useful. Or just Item level making everything a cake walk and that's masking some people perspectives just getting conflicting things here.

Now I don't know why or how people were getting away with doing only 1 aggro combo on a boss and then never needing to use it again. Espically when they also weren't supposed to be in Tank Stance back then either from what I'm hearing so how the heck were people managing aggro when the BLM went full ham or back when SAM had stupid high damage. I'm actually wondering cause the only thing I can think of is people running with teams that actually used the aggro skills from the DPS or just had a NIN help out.

But I used Tank Stance and didn't push Damage like I was a DPS so I've already shown I'm a bad tank so what do I know.