We need to do something about Tanks and Outgoing Damage from Bosses

[Alice_Rivers]

Tanks aren't really "healers" but Healers aren't really "healers" both are pretty largely defined as support dps in function

Healers aren't "healers" because there's nothing to heal, in large part because what healing there is to do is done by tanks who de facto ARE healers at this point and getting worse. I don't mind if tanks help with healing, I very much mind when tanks take over healing. You wanna pop a party shield that saves me GCD heal so I can just use an oGCD? Great, you wanna TBN that idiot with three vulns so I don't have to follow up specifically for him and can just cast an AoE heal? Happy days. Multiple benedictions every 25 seconds? Hell, HALF a benediction on a 25s cooldown? NO.

Further to this point, I don't mind tanks having lots and lots of mitigation, particularly if it's as heavily called upon in high end content as people are claiming. Tanks should be hard to kill but they never be impossible to kill, even at the peak of skill, without a healer. If this requires a rebalancing of tank HP and/or damage from enemies then so be it.