How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Ultimatecalibur]

If you could tank/healer Titan EX, the fight might take 18 minutes, but you're also far less likely to wipe at any point, meaning at the very worst case you lost 6 minutes, but saved, oh, who knows.

10 minutes to 8 hours, give or take.

Pretty much. DpS checks and Hard/Soft Enrages are there to force party compositions to have enough DpS to beat them. If they did not exist or if a tank/healer only group can pass them the groups looking for reliability of clear rather than speed of clear might favor tanks/healers over DpS.

Rathalos EX was stated they wanted anykind of comp to be able to clear it so long as it was done with few deaths. Did we somehow forget its not supposed to be a classic MMO fight? Its a cross-over special fight that was an experiment.

The fight demonstrates how role priorities change based on the fight's meta. When survivablity is prioritized it favors tanks and other jobs able to take/mitigate lots of damage when speed of kill if prioritized it favors dps.