How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Awha]

Exactly this. The past 20 pages of this thread, no one has offered any suggestion to increase tank "complexity" or "engagement." It's just been whining for more damage and "heals shouldn't out dps tanks" and a bunch of defeatist resignation about fight design.

Time to put up or shut up. Start offering suggestions that are meaningful. Open yourself up to criticism. Try to fix the actual problem instead of throwing a band-aid arbitrary amount of dps at tanks and calling it a day. If you can't do that, then shut up and accept that you're simply whining because you want a bigger bar on the graph.

The problem is changes required to make tanking more complex and engaging would not happen this expansion, so while I agree discussion around that topic will be helpful it does nothing for how tanks feel right now, and if adding an extra 1k damage even if it is pseudo feeling and effect would at the very least show SE is trying to make an effort to make it so tanks feels listened to and engaged.

While not the best metric I understand, for the longest time contribution to the group at least from my experience has always been measured by ones DPS while being able to perform their respected role. Now I get it is just a number and as a tank I should not be bothered that a healer breaths down my neck having to press fewer buttons, but the perception remains and it is not a great feeling personally, and do think many tanks feel this way also.