How tanking feels post ShB patch

[Valmarus]

tanking is holding hate that's the most important factor, If as you said something is a requirement as long as you are doing the job, that makes it the most important part. Like a book critic is a reading job

I completely agree with this. You can stand in a corner and pop damage control all you want but unless the mob is actually on you you're not contributing anything at all. EVERYTHING you do is contingent on the fact that you are the one actually taking the damage and not someone else (barring a couple of mechanics).

That said, they have apparently decided that just by selecting your role, you will hold hate, so emnity is no longer a consideration. That may be fine, but basically it makes the job feel like a dps, because the main goal, and focus of player input is to dps. mitigation is considered into gameplay about 15% of the time, now that's about 13% more than other classes, but it does make some one saying it doesnt feel like the purpose of my job is tanking seem like they may have a point.

Again I agree and I think that's what's making me feel bad. I have absolutely no control over how good or bad I am at doing the primary (as in the first, the thing all other things are contigent on) function of my role. If I want to focus on numbers I would DPS. Glad to see I haven't been completely incompetent at getting my orriginal point across.