Have Tanks been dumbed down to much?

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Geez you're angry.

I really don't care about your definition of a good tank neither should you about mine, it is what is right now the tanks are just far too simple which is what this has been about, the simple truth.

Now stop derailing the topic.

Not mad just informing you because you can't come into a thread stating that tanking is boring when you had no prior experience with it and being a good tank does indeed tie into this thread, streamlining the tanks with the tools that you have while being a good tank kinda goes into how people like yourself view tanking do they not?

I find it fun because of what I can do and how I can be better while doing all the things I find tanking enjoyable, that's just your opinion on tanks and I just disagree this is what a forum is for unless i'm mistaken either way you do do, tanking is fun and I enjoy it and I'll just leave it at that it's how I feel as a tank main.

Mitigation and positioning are always fight specific. I can't judge the "core" elements of tanking without having an actual fight to compare them up against (i.e. one in which failing to mitigate causes you to die).

I like that every tank has a short recast mitigation cooldown to work with. This allows for interesting fight design with lots of little things to mitigate while maintaining your dps rotation. It gives TBN truly a chance to shine.

I think a lot of people don't actually know what they want when it comes to tank design. People will happily complain when a job like DRK doesn't follow a fixed strict rotation like GNB or PLD and instead forces you to make decisions based on resource levels on the fly. But in the same breath, they'll complain that everything is too "homogenised". And when you look at their actual performance on the present raid content, it just doesn't match up to their claims.

DRK is soooo easy, which is why you switched to GNB's oh so complex fixed 30 second rotation. But yet you're only capable of reaching one standard deviation below the mean on the job (or haven't even levelled the job to 80). You'd think that everyone posting here is a god tier tank. It just doesn't add up when you match the claims to actual performance.

Just gonna leave this here too probably one of the best posts in here since it backs up what i've been contributing so it's not derailing as I agree 100% with this post.