DPS is the job of DPS.

[HyoMinPark]

i really should stop looking at these threads when I see um. They just... aggravate the unholy hell out of me. I can tank with out tank stance... Tank buster, WHAP. What the hell you stupid healer how come you didn't heal me... You were hit by a tank buster when not in tank stance. Or, Tank grabs lots of mobs and dies because as a healer I have to wait until tank has command of aggro before I do anything or... OOPS. I died by trying to keep the tank alive... STUPID HEALER WHY DIDN'T YOU WAIT FOR ME TO GET AGGRO. You had less then 20% health left. I didn't have a choice but to bene you. I been on every side of this argument. Job comes first. Everything else secondary. If the healer is having a hard time keeping you, THE TANK, alive while you decide to stroke your micro sized E-pen. Put tank stance on. Healers. Find a compromise. If their's a lul in damage being delt do a bit of dps. rather have mp incase the shit hits the fan. Dps... Go nuts. Do what you do best.

I mean, you can take tankbusters outside of tank stance—you just need to pop a cooldown and not take it naked with zero mitigation. Tankbusters will still down tanks IN TANK STANCE if they don’t use a cooldown for it. Same thing while pulling: use your cooldowns.. Mass pulls are honestly the only time where tank stance is actually useful and/or needed. For bosses, not so much. And even then, you need to use your cooldowns in addition to tank stance for mass pulls. Tank stance alone will not save you.

Literally none of these discussions involve demanding players sacrifice the role’s primary job (i.e., tanks sacrificing tanking/cooldowns for DPS, healers sacrificing healing for DPS); they just ask that you at least try to do more than the absolute minimum (or, in the case of healer DPS, Always Be Casting as opposed to standing around idle for extended periods of time).