Hi everyone! Amagiri Yanagi here, and I have a question about openers in general as tanks.

I'm a Dark Knight and my friend is a Warrior. The way we've been pulling so far is having the Warrior start off the pull and then we tank swap where I become the MT shortly after openers. Our Black Mage is disputing this method, saying that I should start off the pull and that the Warrior should just remain the OT the whole time, and that this would net us more damage overall in comparison. I don't know which is actually better, so I was wondering if you all could help me with this issue.

My concerns in particular fell to enmity, loss of mana, and DPS, by having me open. Our War tank is capable of switching into Deliverance pretty quickly even while acting as the temporary MT during openers, and when we tank swap, the advantage I feel is greater from doing that than the DPS lost from our WAR tank doing an Unchained into 3 Fel Cleave opener rather than a 4 Fel Cleave opener.