Quote Originally Posted by MerlinCross View Post
Well for one I'm hearing conflicting reports on healing to the point that if healing hasn't changed, you shouldn't actually NEED to be popping those CD's. The healer can totally cover for you right it's what they're supposed to do right? And if you're at a point where your CDs aren't expected or needed(Either because healing is that weird now or just simply item level) then all you're doing is playing a meaty DPS.

Now I don't know why or how people were getting away with doing only 1 aggro combo on a boss and then never needing to use it again. Espically when they also weren't supposed to be in Tank Stance back then either from what I'm hearing so how the heck were people managing aggro when the BLM went full ham or back when SAM had stupid high damage. I'm actually wondering cause the only thing I can think of is people running with teams that actually used the aggro skills from the DPS or just had a NIN help out.

But I used Tank Stance and didn't push Damage like I was a DPS so I've already shown I'm a bad tank so what do I know.
A tank not using defensive cooldowns is actively being a detriment to their team. Know when to use them, and use them.

"just do an aggro combo duh" is a gross oversimplification. WAR used Equilibrium, a 1200 potency overheal at the onset of the pull of a boss. That is a huge boost to enmity, followed by a very serious burst damage window. DRK had Dark Arts Power Slash, which had a tremendous enmity modifier. DA+DP also could have been used for similar effect. Not sure about PLD though.
As far as "DPS is doing good damage how deal with hate?" either let them die when they rip hate, or "do an aggro combo." Not rocket science there.

Dont belittle yourself. Using tank stance is not bad, per 4.x content. staying in tank stance the entire time was what high-end players sought to discourage, not demonize. But, the community failed to read between the lines, as is tradition.