Quote Originally Posted by BokoToloko View Post
It matters not because the reality is, your tank philosophy isn't the average player's. .
Congratulations, you spent a paragraph saying exactly what I stated. You still need to find a tank that agrees with you, because they're needed as a role. There is no healer or dps leader of a raid that isn't more than a superficial figurehead that's appointed leadership. A tank will always have the option to enforce their authority and make others cater to them more than any healer and dps will. And the reason why my philosophy is different, is because I come from a game that had a community able to do the highest Elite content that had a smaller completion rate than ultimates. The three hardest PvE content achievements were completed by 8 people for one piece of content, noone else on US or EU finished besides 1 raid group. Another had around 24-32. 3-4 "free company's/static's" finished it. And another that had around 100-200 players as a completion rate. When it came to doing that content, there were less than 10 tanks capable of doing that content to the point people were paying the equivalent of a bil+ to a tank for 1 clear because they gatekept everything. The stats required, the mechanic knowledge of years of experience you'd need to handle certain thing for near an hour per run was not something hundreds of people could do on a whim. If those tanks didn't like you, you didn't clear. If you didn't meet their requirements, you didn't get into groups. I've seen tanks put their foot down before on a game. And the fact it can theoretically happen on any game is the reason I laugh when a DPS thinks they're important. I've seen DPS's break down and apologize in voice chat to get a clear because they flat out didn't have a choice. This game being as popular as it is, is a luxury, but it doesn't mean the underlying importance and impact of each role is different. The fact you /can/ get blackballed and forced to not complete content is enough to show where the power actually lies, regardless of it manifests.