This is all DRKs get?

[Aniya_Estlihn]

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I've been tanking since 3.1, so I don't need to be lectured about my main role from someone who has made countless sweepingly inaccurate comments about it throughout several threads over the past few days.

Everything you've mentioned, as well as learning when it is safe to drop stance, are a part of learning how to tank effectively. AoEs going out? Use reprisal, if you're PLD or WAR you can use Divine Veil or SiO. Healers can't keep up with healing? Pop a CD and Convalescence together. Taking too much damage? Guess I should use a CD.

Every statement you've made reeks of an unfamiliarity with the role as a whole, which is absolutely fine, we all had to learn but you can't make statements like that as if they are fact.

You do not need to be in stance all the time, in most high end content you'd be foolish to remain in it. Dungeons are relatively safe as well because you have defensive cooldowns, which contrary to popular belief, are not panic buttons. If you're using your cooldowns effectively, there is little reason to be sitting in tank stance all the time. Be that in a dungeon, trial, extreme trial or savage—it isn't needed if you know what you're doing.

Keep it in mind, switching off tanks stance does not affect only you, but the healers also even on the boss fights, you will be called for a wipe if someone will notice you are not on tank stance.

Sure, if you're bad and show no semblance of knowing what to do. However, more oft than not people don't care about tank stance so long as you are doing damage and keeping hate. It's such a non-issue if you're even slightly proficient at your job, one that many fresh tanks think is this massive cardinal sin, when really... it doesn't matter. If you died with tank stance off then there's more going on there than just having it off, as no boss hits hard enough with their autos to kill you in the span of a second; save for busters, with cooldowns up and if your healer is that bad you'd have already known earlier in the dungeon that it may not be safe to drop stance in the first place.