Thread: Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

In my opinion even if mitigating and holding aggro is very difficult that it requires you to stay tank stance 24/7, dps will always be a valid way to benchmark a tank. Regardless of how much damage you need to mitigate, there will be a point where you have mitigated enough for the healers to heal comfortably (might require higher gear), and from that point on you'll focus on improving your dps. The same holds for healers, even if at the start of progression they need to heal 24/7 without getting any chance of popping cleric stance, once they gear up and get used to the fight they'll inevitably have rooms for dpsing since the gears you get from the raid are obviously better than the gears you wore when you cleared it (unless they change the vertical progression system). As long as the fights are tuned at lower ilv than the drops they offer, there will be rooms for more focus on dpsing, since tanks get tankier and healers' healing output rise when they gear up.

Heck even staying fully in tank stance good tanks will still outdps the bad ones, so I don't really understand why you're so against people comparing tanks based on their dps output (or maybe to be more precise their group dps, since putting extra strain on healers until their dps loss outweighs your personal dps gain is detrimental to your group).