Cooldowns and when to use them best...

[Sida]

I have my focus target element moved to little right and down from the center. Enough away that I still see the center, but close at hand so it's on glance. On boss fights I focus the boss even though as tank I propably have it also targeted the whole time. I originally started this habit on healer as they don't target the boss and I still had to see their cast bars. Noticed it's easier to spot them on that placing on tank as well.

[Syzygian]

The best way to look at not using cooldowns for any tank is simple:

If you don't use cooldowns in a consistent rotation and try to have something up no matter how piddly at least 80-90% of the time, you're basically letting a bunch of damage just kinda happen to you, that could have been mitigated, for no reason. So there you have it.

[Dzian]

I think you're looking at cooldowns the wrong way. You say that you don't feel you need to use them - that shouldn't prompt -not- using them, it should mean "well, if I don't need them, i may as well just use them all the time!".

This kinda makes tanking a bit more boring than it used to be, because cooldowns don't really matter you can just spam them all the time and very very rarely have a problem doing so. there's very very rarely a wrong time to use them.

as a tank you focus on enmity and dps. cooldowns are pretty much an afterthought that you can pop whenever you like because it really doesn't matter if you use them or not.

It'd be nice personally to see cooldowns and survival more important than dps especially from a tank perspective. cooldowns and mitigation are entirely useless which is why pld is in need of "major changes"

[Blitzace]

This kinda makes tanking a bit more boring than it used to be, because cooldowns don't really matter you can just spam them all the time and very very rarely have a problem doing so. there's very very rarely a wrong time to use them.

as a tank you focus on enmity and dps. cooldowns are pretty much an afterthought that you can pop whenever you like because it really doesn't matter if you use them or not.

It'd be nice personally to see cooldowns and survival more important than dps especially from a tank perspective. cooldowns and mitigation are entirely useless which is why pld is in need of "major changes"

I would like to see this even in dungeons, They are not needed honestly, espescially if you have a half-decent healer. But then again, How many tanks right now do not or don't know how to use them properly. i think we would see either a big decrease in people playing tank or alot of people raging at tanks if they made it harder, sadly enough