Quote Originally Posted by Lucke View Post
They have just as much responsibility as a healer does for keeping everyone alive.
So let's discuss a scenario, shall we?

For argument's sake, no mistakes being made for this discussion are going to result in a death. We'll simply say failure to dodge always occurs on something like a single plume, or an Ifrit charge, or whatever. Obviously not something you want to happen, but not outright lethal.

So a mistake is made by a DPS, tank or another healer, the tank doesn't pay for it. The DPS don't. The healers do. It's a simple fact that tanks don't have as much to dodge. 2.1 seems to be heading in a direction that actually makes tanks do things, but prior I would argue tanking was easier than DPSing in many fights. For Titan they could simply stand in one spot over and over. The difference between a bad tank with great gear and a good tank with good gear? Seeing who blows a cooldown and casts a stoneskin right before his "swipe" move after landslide, that way it goes off right before mountain buster. That's not really a whole lot to worry about.

Now, assuming you aren't able/willing to be in a perfect group 100% of the time, the slack is essentially going to be picked up via the healers.

In short, everyone pays in part for their own mistakes. Healers, however, pay for their own and others.