Why do we still have enmity?

[Jandor]

Because you still need the tank to keep the mobs from killing your dps and healers....

That doesn't require enmity.

Enemies could just automatically attack the party member with the blue icon.

In two tank situations they could automatically attack the blue icon with the attack me button pressed.

I mean, that is essentially what we've got now, but enmity does still appear to technically exist as a "thing".

[Bright-Flower]

Enmity is still a thing because it determines who's being attacked, and there still may be some off tank mechanics here or there that target 2nd on enmity etc.

As for it dumbing down tanking, technically sure, but the goal from a min/max or high performance perspective was always to use tank stance and enmity combos as little as possible, usually only at the very start of a boss fight wasn't it? So I don't tend to see it as a huge loss. For tanking we still have positioning, management of defensive cooldowns and bilities, and now every tank will have something to help protect the party as well. The whole 'blue dps' thing, while I can see where people are coming from, I don't feel is quite true even with the enmity changes. Even before these chagnes you generally spent far more time doing your dps rotation than doing enmity combos anyway, unless you're a pre HW paladin and your only combo IS your enmity combo.

[Ultimatecalibur]

For tanking we still have positioning, management of defensive cooldowns and bilities, and now every tank will have something to help protect the party as well.

And likely a greater focus on interrupting/stunning attacks considering how they are making interruptable attacks more noticeable and Tank have both interrupts and stuns.

[Bright-Flower]

And likely a greater focus on interrupting/stunning attacks considering how they are making interruptable attacks more noticeable and Tank have both interrupts and stuns.

True, though I think they're also giving that to ranged dps too? Though I imagine tanks will probably be in charge of it more often, unless these abilities happen often enough you need to rotate interupts like some WoW bosses. Is head graze on the gcd for ranged physical? If so then they'll definitely want the tanks to handle it I think. And depending on the content you may not always have a ranged physical in duty finder.

[Ultimatecalibur]

True, though I think they're also giving that to ranged dps too? Though I imagine tanks will probably be in charge of it more often, unless these abilities happen often enough you need to rotate interupts like some WoW bosses. Is head graze on the gcd for ranged physical? If so then they'll definitely want the tanks to handle it I think. And depending on the content you may not always have a ranged physical in duty finder.

Head Graze is ogcd, but we may see the return of T1 ADS style "interrupt an attack every 15s" in some high end fights.

[Kanitezz]

Well if what you have to worry about now is not an enmity combo, and instead a proficient damage rotation... If you can't keep enmity even with tank stance on, that means you're doing something wrong right?