Is it getting harder for tanks?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This is a problem I DON'T have....I fail to see why this is a "thing"

Maybe this is why I keep getting commendations on my Monk. (laughs)

Mayhaps because you only do casual content where half the tanks never turn off Tank stance and do crap damage as a result? Good tanks, on the other hand, require DPS to use their aggro tools. And if they don't, I will let you die. It's a great teaching method!

I also get commendations for being a "toxic DPS 95% of the fight" healer. Suppose I should keep doing that then.

[HyoMinPark]

I thank you for the correction. I have not played BRD with any consistency since 3.2. Thus, it completely slipped my mind at the time it has been removed since SB.

Just to clarify, Repelling Shot never had an enmity reduction on it. BRDs had access to Quelling Strikes, which was remade into 4.0 Diversion, and which was actually far crappier than the original 4.0 Diversion and much crappier than the new 4.2 Diversion (it was never sufficient enough for a BRD’s burst, especially after 3.4 dropped and they had been buffed to the moon and back).

Now in 4.0, they have Refresh and Tacitician only, which I personally find to be insufficient because even with keeping both on cooldown and dumping my enmity on a consistent basis, I still end up riding the tank’s butt more than once throughout a given fight. But I’m not going to get on that soapbox today lol.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Seriously though, why Purification of all things? No other class with a dump has to literally trade a DPS skill to reduce enmity do they?

Because the devs don't care about uptime and saw Purification was scarcely used. Now if it only took one or two Charka stacks, you could make an argument since that puts it roughly in the same spot as Dragoon. You have to delay Forbidden Charka slightly in the same way Dragoon loses uptime if they have to Elusive mid-combat. Still by no means ideal but certainly better. Now the only time I'd ever want to look at Purification is during long phase jumps where I can quickly cut aggro and get five stacks back again. Looking at Savage, hmmm

Phantom Train: Possibly can do it either when killing them Chimney or right after, assuming Ghost cheese
Chadarnok: Nope. Straight DPS loss; tanks adjust.
Guardian: Maybe when he's flyiing up?
Kefka: Should have enough time during Graven Image
God Kefa: Tanks adjust

Kind of ironic the easiest and hardest fight this tier are "tanks adjust" when involving Monk.