Quote Originally Posted by Shin96 View Post
At this point you're better off playing DPS. The reason I play tanks is for the associated mechanics around the medium. In this game it'll take you forever to find any of that.

Optimally all that SE expects from you is minimal engagement within the game as a tank. You have your tank stance pop it, and your rotation is what's left at the end. Incredibly boring, took me a while to get used to this fact.

And they won't go back or make them more complicated in my opinion. Tanks always held more responsibility in games and that's what made them so engaging and rewarding. The fact you make content easier for others or let's say more efficent gives credence to your overall skill as a person and player in any game. You hold the balance and the outcome depends on it.
Yeah, this is one reason I'm popping back over to DPS in Endwalker. Enmity management doesn't exist anymore, boss positioning rarely matters given how frequently they teleport to centre, lack of adds that require the off-Tank to handle stuff outside of very scripted add phases like in E1S and E7S, lack of Tankbusters resulting in very few Tank swaps that just get invuln'd through, and low incoming damage so personal mitigation doesn't feel impactful. I only tanked for Eden's Verse and Eden's Promise and I was left feeling bored most of the time because if I wasn't main-Tank I had very little to actually do. I don't want to do that for another expac, and so I'm going to plan an actual DPS, rather than sit there as a boring Blue DPS.