Quote Originally Posted by Novak_04 View Post
My initial thoughts:
(Hear me out) At this point, most of the people I see that are oppose to tank stance are those who do savage and extremes. This is a very small population of the game as a whole, however the vocal majority of the forums.
I heard you out but I have multiple issues with this statement. I wanna say the vocal majority is absolutely not raiders, but at the same time the advice given by raiders is repeated rhetorically.
Tank stance is an absolutely wonderful thing that nobody else has had since the removal of the old Cleric Stance. Allow me to explain. Tanking is, for some, a rather stressful position. Getting your tanks stance as a new player is empowering you to do your job significantly easier, and you can worry about your own safety a bit less. While levelling it gives you that extra umph when needed until you become confident in your role before you start using more dps stance. But that isn't to say it's a newbie clutch. It's used by endgame raiders just the same. It's an extra defensive cooldown, it's your enmity snap, it's your way to go from unstoppable force to unmovable wall. They really bring out the role of tanking.

There's just a large misunderstanding about how the stances are used. People repeating advice they don't fully understand.

In my personal opinion, old Cleric Stance should come back too, as it was effectively the exact same thing. Healing was a lot more fun back then.

DPS should have some sort of on-the-fly stance change too. Something in regards to status effects vs raw damage, perhaps. Swapping on the fly is really fun and adds some nice complexity to an otherwise exceedingly straightforward game design.