DPS Enmity controls

[Kabooa]

Your argument implies that I'm saying a tank should just sit in tank stance and do agro combos. I'm not. I'm saying that if I, as a DPS, will put out more damage using one of my damage skills than a tank will lose by doing an extra enmity combo or two, then the tank should be adjusting to the situation rather than the DPS.

My argument implies a few things, but a Dump is more damage for the party because it's threat the tank doesn't have to generate. A tank in tank stance doing threat combos does stupid threat, but we aren't doing that. We're looking at tanks in DPS stance who have to swap to aggro combos to prevent it from ripping off. A tank in tnak stance doing threat combos is something around 64% of the outgoing DPS of a DPS tank but doing somewhere around 400% more threat.

Even in the above example diversion is ready again (thus extending the time to overtake) and shirk is available at least once if not twice (unless required for a swap).

Both purification and threat combos / tank stance are not required, -but- if they were and for some reason these tools are not available, you cost your party less damage by just dumping. Factoring in Riddle of Fire for this monk in the example puts the Chakra at 23.4k, which is still short of 28.8k for forcing the tank to do aggro combos instead of dumping.

also it's worth noting that Dark Knight loses less damage here than paladin would in this scenario, while Warrior loses close to nothing assuming they don't have to do an IR window and have Unchained ready.

I have to clarify that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, just pointing out some pretty generic cases.