Why do tanks exist?

[Lannybaby]

As many others have said, I do think it's a gear issue.

A few days after the 4.0 release, I decided to level up my dragoon (was lv 60 at the time). On my way to lv 61, I queued into a 50/60 dungeon and landed on aethero chemical research facility. My dragoon was wearing mostly ilvl 260 pieces, with two or three 250 pieces. The weapon was also 260. I landed with a warrior tank wearing all ilvl 200 pieces, and trash pulls were a nightmare for the poor lass. She was spamming overpower and the other dpser (bard, I believe) and I had to pull back quite a few times and wait for the tank to establish more enmity.

One thing I hate about many dps players is that they believe their sole purpose in life is to steal enmity from the tank. I've met a lot of them who do not switch targets if their enmity gets too high, or use their enmity-reduction skills (single-target encounters/bosses are fair game). They'll just keep wailing away at their target, even after they've ripped off enmity from the tank, and then blame the tank for losing enmity. Granted, it is the tank's job to not lose enmity. But when the dpser has a 40+ item level gap over the tank, and enmity-reduction skills collecting cob webs on their hot bar, that's a different story.