Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
We were discussing primary focus. And since tanks have two focus, to keep monster on them and to survive, I simply made sure that enmity was a not non-issue to focus on the surviving part, which, again is almost completely unrelated to how much DPS you do.
We all know that mitigation is another aspect of tanking, but that's not the point being made here. The point of the discussion was that tanks focus on dealing damage as a primary objective of their role. Dealing damage is exactly how they maintain enmity, and so damage is an essential element of tanking. It must be done, and is in fact most of tank gameplay.