Quote Originally Posted by Delorean View Post
I hear a lot of common arguments why people don't tank. "The party might be very critical of my ability (or lackthereof) and may abandon me or kick me out of the group" or "I don't want to have to take charge." Yet these same reasons still apply other classes and they put up with them and play their class.
Mwuah, I disagree on the notion that the same applies to DPS classes. As quite simply, it's not as apparent if one of the DPS classes screws up greatly. Running a parser the DPS charts in a dungeon would often be something like:

DPS A 250
Me 110
DPS B 70
Healer 60

DPS B in that scenario is doing a very, very poor job. However, has no accountability for it whatsoever. Simply because it's not as apparent. It doesn't lead to a group wipe as quickly. And without third party tools contribution of DPS A vs DPS B would be nothing more than a mere guess. And even if a DPS does die repeatedly, it tends to simply be passed upon as if nothing happened. The person is raised, perhaps a few times, and not a single word is spoken about it.