Why not just make everyone a DPS?

[Izsha]

Craaaaap. Good old decimal points. Always in the wrong place. Had extra zeros in all my spreadsheets thus my 430 crit to get .1% should have been 10.0%. Derp derp. I r smrt.

Well crap. Wish I had caught that before I melded all my 150 tank accs with skillspeed cuz I thought crit was litterally 100x worse than it is. FML.

[AriaEnia]

I have 744 crit as a SMN.
My current gear is:
Weapon: eso 200
Head: law 180
Chest: eso 200
Hands: law 180
Belt: alex 190
pants: law 180
legs: law 180

accs, all law 180 with 1 170 ring.

I've tried 20 times ruin II on a dummy and only 1 crit proced. I guess RNG is still RNG.

[SpookyGhost]

I've tried 20 times ruin II on a dummy and only 1 crit proced. I guess RNG is still RNG.

That's an extremely small sample size.

[Gameplayzero]

I don't get the complaints. The simple answer is that if you are feeling pressured is to just find a group that you can be yourself and go all Vit. It seems that the only time you'd REALLY need to stance dance is during end game, and thats optional. My answer won't change the meta, but for right now its the best thing you have.

Personally I find it way more exciting finding the fine line between "life and death" while also contributing to the team with better damage output. Its more thought provoking and has more thrill. Regular tanking is popping up cooldowns, keeping aggro, and staying alive. DPS tanking is the same, but you are in a more fragile state and are doing more damage. There is hardly any difference. You still have aggro to worry about, and you have to worry more about cooldowns now that you are out of your tanking stance. Its more tanking then actual tanking lol. Your damage also can contribute to your tanking (especially warrior) so thats another plus. This also makes it more exciting/thrilling for healers since they have more healing to do (as long as the tank knows how to properly stance dance and the healer wants the challenge). If your tank is hardly taking any damage then they'll get bored and dps. I don't play healer, but I highly doubt that healer dps will be as fun as tanking dps/rotations :P. Correct me if i'm wrong though.

i'm just happy that they gave us the option to be both.

[Fufupel]

Dungeons in GW were AWFUL the only time I enjoyed them was if they were fractals but even then I hated them. Also all people did was run in full zerker's to make the dungeon go faster. If you had any type of gear besides Zerker's or Soldier's or any different build besides the popular cookie cutter's your group complained. Also Guild Wars had some great PvP FFXIV PvP is fun and all but it's not the greatest what attracts people to play and stick with FFXIV is mainly the raiding content (sorry i'm mainly speaking for myself and guildies here) if you ruin that the game will most likely fall.