Removing Tank Stance Argument

[Seraphor]

"There's no "DPS Stance" for damage dealers that increases their damage and reduces their defence."

Blood for Blood?

You don't have to say it "decreases damage" but if the opposite, DPS stance increases damage, then, in relative terms, the tank variant must be less.
In this sense, all DPS classes have a DPS stance.
Astral Fire is a DPS stance, and not being in AF is a damage decrease, etc.

I propose that it should still decrease damage, because you'd need to balance these two paradigms with each other.
If OT's are in default DPS stance, and MT's are in default tank stance, then how do you balance those default stances with each other?
Without a decrease to the MT's default tank stance, then the MT's DPS boost will be above and beyond anything the OT can put out.
Without any damage modification, you simply have a tank that has an ever present defense boost, and a tank that only gets it occasionally. Obviously that's not balanced, in both cases the MT outclasses the OT in all ways.

MT: always has boosted defence, doesn't have any damage penalty, has a damage boosting cooldown.
OT: just has a defence boosting cooldown that puts it back on par with the MT's constant defence.