Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Now, how do you move tanks away from feeling like they have a significant unique responsibility when they don't? I suspect that's by increasing the outwardly visible responsibility of whichever role would otherwise seem to have the least.
You can't, so you don't even try, is the solution imo. Not trying to say this in a callous way, but look at FFXIV history. They have removed 'position the boss correctly' from encounters, removed the stance dance for more DPS thing, baked in the old tankstance 20% damage mitigation as a permanent trait, jacked the aggro generation on tank stance up from 5x to 25x or whatever it is, given tanks way higher HP than other roles, and none of it matters because people will still believe that, since the tank is the one at the front doing the pulling, they're the 'leader', and therefore laden with responsibility somehow. Tank is probably the least punishing of the roles in this game, you can eat AOEs others cannot, you have way more defensives if you see you're in bad, you have way more selfsustain tools to get your HP back up.

People go 'but what if I mistime a defensive i'm scare'. My brother/sister in Hyadelyn, the fact you're thinking about using a defensive, even mistimed, makes you better than like 85% of the playerbase