DPS Enmity controls

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Again, to avoid a misunderstanding: Yes, DPS should use their aggro tools, but if they don't, it's the tank's responsibility to make up for their mistake. Imagine what would happen if healers did the same: Only heal the damage that is unavoidable, if someone gets hit by some avoidable AoE, don't heal that portion, because it lowers the healers DPS. That's the healer equivalent of what you are promoting for tanks.

I have no qualms switching to tank stance if people are dying and healer MP is getting stretched thin or if a DPS who has used their aggro abilities begins catching up again. I do, however, take issue with being forced into tank stance and having to spam multiple combos because a Samurai or White Mage refuses to dump their aggro. It has nothing to do with wanting to DPS more, it simply annoys me, especially on Dark Knight since Grit + Powerslash can mess with the rotation flow. If you constantly baby people, they'll never use their aggro abilities. I've let someone eat a tank buster before, it's funny how they suddenly remembered what Diversion and Lucid do. Likewise, I do this on healers. If someone continuously dies to avoidable damage, you've become a liability to my MP and can stay on the floor. Just like with tanks and aggro, it's amazing how quickly people learn to actually dodge when the healers get fed up raising them.

As far as I'm concerned there's a limit. If things are going poorly for the whole alliance, sure, I'll play more conservatively. Is someone new? I'll be far more patience. And, of course, if my ilvl is much lower, I'll compensate. Beyond that, no, I am not correcting for someone too lazy to bring Diversion. If I do another aggro combo or two and that isn't enough, the boss will mitigate the problem. And maybe next time you'll use Diversion.