G-give it Back T---T; !! (Scholar Edition)

[Renathras]

How do you know?

Well, for one thing, I can't point to a single post of any actual Tank player asking for this. The only cases I've seen of people suggesting it are from unhappy Healer players who present it as an argument but even they aren't asking for it. What you're asking here is to "prove the negative". It's that philosophical debate of "If you can't disprove something, does that mean it's true? How do you disprove something absolutely?" One of the examples is "prove there are no non-pink flamingos" or something. Basically, the only way to prove this is to search the entire universe and find that there's not one non-pink flamingo. But this is shifting the burden of proof. If someone suggested there was a rainbow colored unicorn flamingo, the burden of proof should be on them to show that one exists, not for everyone else to conduct an exhaustive search of the whole universe to find one.

There are posters here that argue for healers to be more about healing and less about damage. I argue for at least one healer not to be focused on a DPS rotation, which is a pretty moderate (yes, if I do say so myself, but I can present an objective case if you like) position between endpoints of "all healers should have involved damage rotations" and "healers should only heal and shouldn't even be doing damage in the first place". But I've also seen people here make those arguments. Reddit's mainsub, which is probably a bigger sample size and more reflective of the overall player bases has all three positions represented in discussions on healing.

So we KNOW there are healers that want more focus on healing or at least not more focus on damage rotations/damage dealing, either on some healers (like me) or all healers (in other people's cases). We know those flamingos exist, because we've observed them, so to speak.

But I can't point to a single post or thread I've ever seen of someone seriously suggesting they want Tanks to be Flasspammers. Can you?

So while we cannot rule out that they may exist somewhere, if we have no evidence the exist despite thousands of threads and possibly millions of posts, we can reasonably conclude that they either don't exist, or are an extremely small and not vocal group. Now, if you want to advocate we need a Flasspamming Tank - feel free to do so - but the fact remains that no one seems to be doing that, so it isn't a good counter to something some people actually are advocating for.

Fair?

(Also, yes, the post limit. And I do try some hbs, but that only helps so much when responding to so many people.)

Somewhat off-topic, but…

Sure, but that would require everyone to condense their posts and not rehash what others are saying/join together in complaints. Just have one person speaking for their collective view allowing direct reply. This is mostly due to the post limit here. (Also, I'm not the only one that does it...)

It's a good way to...

I don't disagree, but there's not really a better option at present other than saving a bunch of stuff to offload the next day, which leads to even longer posts.