What if Tank classes could only meatshield?

[Iromi]

It's not a question of whether its interesting or not. People who roll tanks don't do it for the numbers. Sure, it feels good to do decent damage, but at the same time it shouldn't supersede why we have higher defense and HP than the DPS and healers. As I've said before, tanking outside of tank stance is unthinkable in other games between mitigation gained from the stances and enmity modifiers being tied to same.

This said, you can and should aim to do the best DPS you can...while in tank stance with the level of mitigation you were balanced around, not using tools meant for off-tanking (i.e. when you're not the mob's main target) in unintended ways.

It was sort of novel at one point, but it's beginning to creep its way from a novel thing you do for shits and giggles to the mainstream, and that's a problem.

I agree with this. Do the best damage you can and focus on your mitigation at the same time. If they were to add stuff in for off tanking, they could but you know how that goes..balancing issues and what not...

Also, Hi Duelle!