Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
Tanks are meant to take hits. DPS are made to give hits. Why this discussion keeps popping up is beyond me. Next thing you'll try to sell us on is BLM ley line deaths are worth the 50% drop to DPS.
Gotta love your strawman/false equivalency.

DPS are able to pull and tank in Normal mode content. Tanks simply excel at it. This has no equivalence to a BLM standing in their Ley Lines and dying because of it.

Outside of the new addition of Criterion, mobs do pitiful damage either way. Melee jobs in particular have solid longevity as long as they have access to Bloodbath and individual melee jobs have something in their kit that complements it.

If melee jobs can survive an Onslaught of three to four mobs that he pulls to the tank then the tank is not exactly in a position to scream "this is too much for me!". At that point I'd ask him to turn off tank stance every second pull and focus on damage.