Quote Originally Posted by Arrius View Post
Not a good example. They aren't necessarily bad, just maybe perhaps they more comfortable in staying in that stance instead of dancing between them. And I rather give the healer more wiggle room to possibly DPS and save the healing for DPS roles that fail mechanics, than me (a PLD) do a spec more damage.

Speaking of which, even with stance dancing, the DPS still are a issue these days - With all 10 role actions at their disposal, they still don't use Diversion or other actions frequently. And not to mention using single target attacks on groups of 4 and more. And much more.

I rather like the parser to have a stab on the bottom line and get the real bads thrown out of the door rather than antagonize anyone else, as long the performance they do is sufficient.
Any serious (or semi serious) static will kick you after a few runs if they notice youre tanking in Grit/SwordOath/Defiance for the entirety of EX/Savage fight. As I said, the game is not currently designed for you to sit in tank stance. After getting initial hate in any raid or savage content, you can do the rest of the fight in DPS stances.

Being 'comfortable' is just another way of saying "Im to lazy and/or insecure in being able to tank and use my CDs effectively to drop out of tank stance". For someone whos got lvl 70 tanks, and supposedly mains one, its slightly baffling you think good tanking is "sit in grit" the entire fight.

As for DPS roles, yeah, I do agree that DPS (and players in general) are not playing at the full potential. A lot of players are phoning it in, or rather those who live the PUG life. Single target DPS instead of trying to maximize AoE DPS, not using aggro dumps, not using damage mitigators on AoEs, etc etc. Im actually glad with the current tier that some of the fight mechanics are indeed pushing players to use those skills more frequently to be effective and 100% less dead. Not to say Im not seeing tanks do their part. Half the tanks Ive seen seem to have some kind of allergy to Reprisal, or dont know how to circle shirk in raids, or us LD/HG/Holmgang as cooldowns to deal with mechanics rather than saving them as "Oh Snaps!" buttons.

I think the unfortunate side effect of SB and how they redid some of the classes is people got lazy, and now then started complaining about how "easy" things were. Now with the newer content pushing the envelope a touch, things should hopefully get a touch better. Maybe