Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Frankly, I really dont think DRK is "the matter at hand". The whole content design that enforce people to drop as much mitigation as possible is what makes tank balance a mess.
It absolutely is when you're posting in a thread titled "Core Issues With 4.x Dark Knight"

If your issue is with the focus on DPSing while tanking then perhaps this game just isn't for you, because that's a "problem" that is outside the focus, scope, and frankly potential of this thread. Again, its muddying the discussion.

Then again, if you think eschewing mitigation at all costs without any qualifying statements or situational if/ands/buts is the nature of tanking in this game, I can say for certain that that is 100% subjective and there are numerous instances of its falsehood to balance out any sad-face experiences that may have turned you off to tanks' motivation to master the risk-reward dynamic of dps vs. mitigation.

I cite for reference Xeno's stream during day 2 (?) of prog on UCOB, wherein he drank up a 70K crit followed by a 30K cleave from Twintania within 4 seconds before finally going down, strictly by virtue of having been in Defiance and making liberal use of IB.

The entire argument falls apart when you realize that when you strip away all of the tank mitigation essentials from every tank (stance, CDs, utilities) the remaining differences are few.