How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Reynhart]

Well the point being made is that tanks maintain enmity by dealing damage.

But, like I said, optimizing enmity is not technically the same as optimizing damage. And, frankly, this line was only to point out that enmity is barely something tanks have to focus on

I think your ideas for how tanks can be more engaging are interesting, but you're still talking full rotations and dealing damage here.

If we want to dive a little deeper, it's more complicated than that.
If you replace the damage buff of Storm's Eye by the old Defiance effect, failing to maintain Storm's Eye could have a huge impact of your survivability since you'd instantly lose up to 20% of your HP, and the healing benefit that SCH loved. So, managing your rotation would not simply be a goal to do the most DPS (Especially since, without the damage buff, using Storm's Eye would be a slight DPS loss compared to Storm's Path). As for Darkside, I think the duration should be lowered to, at best 20s, (15 could be doable, I think) so that refreshing it too soon would lead to a situation where you can't recover MP fast enough to keep it. And if the Darkside effect was a Dread Spike, letting it drop would suddenly prevent you from leeching HP and thus taking hits full force. So, again, dropping it could have a heavy cost on your tanking capability, even though you'd do the same DPS as now.