do people hate tanking?

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I wish it was easy to just tank and NOT have to focus on trying to push dps numbers. Seems that people like me who just want to tank can't because there's too much bashing due to low numbers.

for the most part it is pretty easy to tank as long as your gear is good and you understand the basics of aggro/cooldowns. Thats WHY people want you to push out good numbers. Being a basic tank and staying in tank stance hitting your 1,2,3 combo over and over makes you an ok tank. You are a still a damage dealer at the end of the day since you are hitting things. I think a lot of tanks forget that.

You can just as easily hold aggro and be a meat shield WHILE doing great dps. If you can make a run faster why wouldn't you? If I was a tank that only tanked or a healer that only healed i'd be bored of the game really fast only because most content doesn't hit hard enough to warrant more.