DPS Enmity controls

[Megguido]

I actually stopped trying to do Savage and Extreme because of not being allowed to have fun on those fights and randoms always make it way more stressful to the point where I almost want to spin the boss so that it cleaves the group because of people of that mindset you have right now. And I'm perfectly fine not doing Savage and Extreme because that content is not for me. Also, how the hell does aggro bounce...?

The point of Savage content is to do harder content, and it requires people to know at least the basics of their jobs. If you have fun playing the job how you like it, it might not be how the job is meant to be played.

I can play PLD and spend all my mana on Clemency because I want to be off healer.
I can play BLM and only use ice spells because being an ice mage is cool.
I can play BRD and never use a singing spell because I just want to be an archer.
Etc...

You definitely have the right to play as you please, but in the best case it might be a minor nuisance (if co-tank want to MT, or if people are parsing, or all 3 tanks fighting for MT in 24-man raids), in the worst case it's an immediate kick out of the party (that is more likely to happen in Extreme and Savage content).

From personnal experience, I was farming Byakko the other day and a DRK joined the team. He insisted to tank the boss and was only doing Power Slash combos. In the end, even with decent gear, he barely went above 1.5k DPS, which is not even half of the damage of a decent DRK. Sure we cleared, but if everyone was playing this way we wouldn't meet the DPS check at the end.