Quote Originally Posted by Navnav View Post
Anyway, I AM going to use clemency after requi and HOLD requi as a defensive for clemency use, I will only hit damaging abilities if I am comfortable. Because to me, clemency SHOULD be part of your tanking rotation. PERIOD.
There's no reason to be stubborn because Enix didn't design tanks properly. There is very little damage intake in this game, healers have an incredibly good toolkit and the bulk of the tanking toolkit is dps rotation and oGcd defensives. That's just how it is. I agree it's a mess, I'd like to see tanking being a battle of survival, but it's not and if you choose to punish your group by following a vision that doesn't exist, you're a bad player. Sorry to be blunt, but the tank style you want isn't in the game. Roll a dps. It's not the group's fault the game is designed this way.

Clemency is an emergency heal. For example if your healer is terrible or dead or you're making a massive pull and the dps are way too slow and you burnt every CD. It's completely wasted if you just spam it randomly. You're wasting your healers free oGcd's at the cost of your damage.

Even in WoW tank damage is a thing. It's just designed better, where bosses hit much harder and defensives are tied to damaging abilities. So you're constantly playing a survival game with meaningful choices (although they wrecked a lot of that in BFA). But if you had a channeled heal that did 0 damage and nothing hurt you enough to need it, decent WoW tanks wouldn't touch it.