Quote Originally Posted by Riki_Namu View Post
I find it almost laughable that the hardest jobs to play in the game with the most responsibility are expected by the community to put out DD numbers or they are considered not great. Only in FFXIV do you see crap like that. Oh what you were 4th on the parse... bad tank cant believe you couldn't tank this and do the top damage against jobs specifically meant to dole out DPS lol.
For me, it's more an issue of: "What now?"

I mean, once you know how to hold enmity there's really no getting better at it. Dungeons don't change or rearrange themselves. Mitigation can sometimes be a little more dynamic (unexpected stuff happens), but it usually gets fairly routine in casual content... so... Dps. That's really the only thing left to do. The only way for a tank to actively "improve" themselves and have more fun with their job is to try and learn their job inside and out, and that means learning how to maximize their Dps while doing all of the other things they are supposed to do.

Not all tanks do it, mind you, and I don't think many people gripe about it. Some people only moonlight as tanks, and others might main it but be very casual (a more "enmity is my home" type of attitude), but if you Main your tank, you enjoy the job, you go out of your way to learn how to tank all the casual dungeons, then it kind of makes sense that the next step would be pushing yourself. Otherwise it would get routine and boring.