How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[Melichoir]

No. Just...no.

1) Person might not be comfortable stance dancing. Losing hate on a boss is much more troublesome than someone not wanting to get out of tank stance. In fact, if they aren't comfortable stance dancing, I welcome them to stay in tank stance, rather than risk the boss tankbusting a dps.

2) Tank might be a good tank, but undergeared. Not everyone can drop the millions upon millions of gill for the i380 crafted gear. And given that it's only the end of week 1, most people are going to have an i390 creation ring...at best. Just because you might be on O11S already, doesn't mean everyone else is.

Le sigh.

My gear is not 'Gil Dropped Over melded 380+ crafted gear'. Im running 360-370 Ryumaki and Diamond with two 380 pieces from Alphascape, and the Suzu Ex weapon primarily. Ive not bought any Genesis gear yet. I still tank outside of Grit in Content Im clearing. Why? Because the fights are designed for it and Im a good tank who has learned how to do it with healers who have learned how to heal tanks outside of grit with DPS who have learned to DPS with tanks who arent using grit. We're not having problems.

People like you are only proving you do not know the mechanics of the class.

So let me just break it down easy for you:

Enmity should not be an issue for you in the current tier, particularly, because after getting initial aggro, your DPS should keep hate so long as your teams DPS is using proper aggro Dumps AND your OT is circle shirking with you. In a proper group, I very VERY rarely have enmity issues, and if it does occur, it is almost ALWAYS my fault for not doing something I shouldve been doing. And if DPS arent using aggro dumps, be a good tank and tell them to use them. And btw, Tank busters are there to force you to perform certain actions. There are no single target tank busters which will kill you unless its intended to do so because you failed a tank swap. You can cooldown through all of htem wihtout tank stance. And hey, guess what! You can turn your tank stance back ON if you really want to! Imagine that! Using tank stance LIKE A CD!

And you dont get comfortable doing something unless you practice. Its literally "Git Gud". 'Cause guess what. I used to play the way you suggest. So I know full well that feeling of being told "Dont tank in tank stance." But I wanted to raid, and I wanted to be better, so I actually practiced tanking outside of tank stance. And guess what, its not that hard. If anything, its funner. Dont come up to me telling me that "A good tank plays in Tank stance!" cause thats not the way it is. Thats real beginner way of thinking in the game as it currently is. You want better tanks (and better players), its about encouraging them to start doing things that theyre not comfortable doing and learning how to manage. That makes better players. Telling tanks to stay in tank stance cause its "easier" just keeps tanks in the dark about how to be a better, more proactive tank. It also keeps them from attempting harder content because the better players wont play with a tank who cant stance dance.