WHy do you tank?

[Yojimzo]

Mainly because I enjoy it, though I'll fully admit, over my many years in MMO's, I've learned to never trust anyone to know how to do their job as well, and as a tank at least I can try to carry anyone who ends up feeling like dead weight.
I mean, if they're at least trying then I don't feel like I need to rag on 'em.

'Course, this is coming from a guy with the admittedly archaic belief's of a tanks job is to A, Hold Aggro, and B, do your best to survive. The DPS meta has always... annoyed me.

[ChazNatlo]

Because I'm an idiot and Dark Knight looks so cool. ((Internally screaming through entire runs))

[Delorean]

because it's not very complicated and after about 8 years of dpsing in wow i really dont trust anyone else to tank a boss that can actually kill people

i leveled a dps class in this game and was not amused with the number of tanks that would just straight up kill their party members with these brutal frontal cleave attacks

unfortunately the drawback is that when the group is good, they still do significantly less DPS than me (As a DPS class) most of the time

[Rocond]

I didn't choose to tank. I was born that way.

[FinalWolf]

I actually get to fight the boss head on.

[Jim_Berry]

...because it took me two years to realize my damage out suck as NIN.

[Violette]

Because it's the only role where I have the judge the hell out of the dps for dying to stupid stuff.

[Laurima]

because my FC at the time had only 1 good tank and I was tired of no dungeons insta popping ( LOL

[listerfiend81]

"I tank,therefore I am"

[Dzian]

For me tanking always used to be about standing up to a big ass boss and shrugging off his most powerful attacks in a kind of "is that all you got?" fashion. Kinda like action movies where the hero dude punches the big guy and the big guy just laughs at him.

Since 2.0 that feeling hasn't really existed as tanking seems to me heavily centred on enmity and dps and very little to do with shrugging off big hits.

Those that played 1.2 may remember paladins using aegis boon to shrug off that massive 100t that could quite easily 1 shot you with not even a scratch on your shield kind of thing.

It was more about taking the hits and shrugging off the damage but that doesn't exist anymore. Mitigation is a complete joke and unneccessary which is why paladin needs major changes.

I'd love to see proper Mitigation come back and get rid of the endless dps checks that all content is designed around.