Tank Stance

[HyoMinPark]

Secondly diversion isn't really the be all and end all for enmity control. It's like a 2 min CD isn't it? And any dps is going to out dps a tank, that's why they have enmity boosting combos and stances. If they aren't used then they are a bad tank. End off.

Diversion is a 90% reduction on your personal enmity for 30 seconds every 120 seconds; it’s ridiculously good. Using it on cooldown does wonders for both yourself and your tank. Refusal to use it because it’s “not my job to management aggro” is just refusal to be a team player.
As a BRD main who has broken 12k in their opening burst, I would love something like Diversion. Ironically, it was originally called Quelling Strikes, and was an Archer skill. Halving my enmity with Refresh/Tacitian has quite often not been nearly enough, since BRD bursts essentially every 80 seconds. And it really is poor design to tie an enmity dump to something that supposed to be used for party support.

WARs have enmity skills that they can use outside of tank stance (Onslaught, BB combo), but if everyone is managing their enmity properly and utilizing their enmity reduction/queller/dumps, there is very little need for a good WAR to touch either unless there is a massive discrepancy in gear. Obviously a level 68 WAR in leveling gear is going to struggle against a geared level 70 DPS, even in level-synced content; hence why the level 70 should rotate their enmity management tools accordingly to make things easier. The same goes for other tanks as well—DRK’s enmity multipliers are absolutely ridiculous since the 4.3 changes.


I won’t disagree that there are terrible tanks out there; I’ve met them. But it is equally terrible on a DPS’ part to just blatantly refuse to manage their own aggro—be it out of a “it’s not my job” mentality, or an “I’m mad at this tank for being bad” mentality.