How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Lyth]

The relative damage determines the impact of your performance. The wider the gap, the less value that 99% percentile performance carries to your team as a whole. Your team is better off moving a less competent player into the tank slot and having you switch to dps.

The people who seek out support roles (tanking and healing) do so to bring value to their team. If you devalue these roles, they become superficially more 'accessible', but you also end up driving away the very sort of personality type who seeks them out in the first place.

[Reynhart]

Your team is better off moving a less competent player into the tank slot and having you switch to dps.

Unless :

• You're not as skilled as a DPS compared to the DPS job of the less competent tank
• Your DPS is not geared properly because you use the weekly rewards to equip the job you like
• The less competent tank might have tanking problems putting your party at risk
• You're less accustomed to the mechanics for a DPS and thus have a greater chance of failing them
• You don't want to raid as a DPS
• The less competent tank doesn't want to raid as a tank

So, basically, you need an 8 planet alignment for asking a competent tank to switch...and all of those would have been the same in previous expansions.