Quote Originally Posted by Sapphidia View Post
It may be that the community buzz about how fun tanks are (particularly all the fell cleave memes at the start of HW) has made these previously dps-centered players at least dabble in tanking.
There's also a point to be made in the fact that the skills HW gives tanks largely reward them for playing aggressively. Back in 2.x, I only tanked when I did Coils with my static, and queued up for roulette a as a DPS job, mainly because queuing up as a tanks and getting 2 bad DPS was a death sentence in boredom. Tanking at lv 60, parsing upwards of 1k DPS, and having boss mitigation is an extremely rewarding task that I have not gotten out of the other roles.