Tank Stance

[Canadane]

Well enmity is a two way street, diversion is very useful.
Also with Warrior, he wouldn't have gotten any defensive bonus from the use of Defiance.

I'm sorry he may have been blunt about it, but I think you actually encountered one of those good tanks you rarely hear about.

[addz3]

The problem with both the points above. 1. He never had agro to start with. 2. Defensive bonus is irrelevant, multiple deaths caused by enmity chopping between players is bad enmity control and like it or not the tank has the tools or more than any other job to control this. The fact that this tank and tanks in general don't take charge of enmity is the definition of bad tanking. It also brings the group's dps down as a whole as well.

[BillyKaplan]

Also with Warrior, he wouldn't have gotten any defensive bonus from the use of Defiance.

No, but the heal buff helps in a pinch, and it gives you access to Inner Beast which does have a defensive bonus. Plus more self-heal tools.

This story is way too partial to judge either way. I think the party should've managed their own agro. Assuming they didn't, the tank was in the wrong for not taking matters into their own hands. Like people say here, it's a group effort, and if the tank refused to adapt to the party they ran with, some of the blame falls on them as well. They rolled a tank, the tank's primary job is to hold hate.
Between this and taking stance dancing away from them... that's a no.