I have been playing my PLD up to 78 and about to hit 79, and the fact that I no longer have to stance dance is so perfect.

With all the crazy crap you have to deal with as a tank pre SHB, stance dancing was the one thing that needed to go as #1. When I heard sword oath was removed I was like "Oh no! My solo stance!" But then I thought about what I was losing. Stress! Seriously this was the smartest thing SE did for all the tanks.

Much like how healers should DPS and tanks should DPS I feel takes away from the classes that we choose. I for one wanted to tank and take all the punishment for everyone. I didn't sign up to push my DPS higher then a MNK while switching back and forth to hold hate. That's just stupid! And I think SE saw this as a community problem, and put tanks back in the tank corner, DPS in the DPS corner, and heals the same.

I didn't like that toxic environment of DPS making tanks feel like our DPS sucks...because it does! I will never get BLM level numbers so stop expecting it.

Good Riddance Sword Oath, Deliverance, and Darkside (persay).

Thoughts?