Can we please get aggro management back?

[Fluffernuff]

I recall a specific thread back when Stormblood first released begging to remove the gauge penalty for stance dancing. So, yes, I do remember stance dancing, more so in dungeons than in raid content.

Alright. so. There's much, much more nuance to this than you let on, here.
Before explaining what/why... we all need to get something out of the way about this; This was a WAR specific issue. and had very little to do with the stance effects themselves.

To your credit, though, WAR did Stance Dance. At least the *proper* WARs did...... but it was never for emnity. or for any sort of nuance for aggro management. Heck, memes aside, it wasnt even for damage sometimes. Stance Dancing DID happen, even in Raid content. Though to a lesser extent, as you say. Fell Cleave was the way, but you cant do that when you got killed. "Just pop IB 4head"


Here's the thing about WAR in HW+SB; Deliverance and Defiance changed the effects of several abilities. Abilities such as Steel Cyclone, Equilibrium, and Inner beast/Fell Cleave. Inner beast and steel cyclone in specific being an on-demand 20% damage mitigation, and steel cyclone being an AoE leech. It was common to use these for large pulls, for Tank Busters (unchained removing the damage penalty) and the like.

The reason there was an outcry about this is BECAUSE WAR was the only tank that had an actual reason to change stances..... and were the only tanks that had a penalty for it. PLD didnt lose oath gauge. DRK could have grit AND darkside without losing blood gauge. WARs peers lost nothing for the same benefits. it was blatantly imbalanced, and using the tools available to you severely dug into a WARs performance.

That was the outcry.