Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
By the same token, your Meta is irrelevant to SE and they will design gear and encounters around their design imperatives. They will balance skills, stats and potencies based on their criteria, not the DPS meta. If their goals conflict with the DPS meta, guess who wins?
The goal of players will always be to maximize dps while meeting healing/mitigation checks. Additional hp and overhealing don't kill the boss faster. If turtle tanking allows healers to dps more than what we lose from tank stance penalty then we'll stay in tank stance. The devs give us the tools (skills, stats, gear, etc), we maximize dps based on what we get. What they want us to do with those tools doesn't matter, what matters to us is what we can actually do with hose tools.