What if Tanks were designed like Healers?

[Shurrikhan]

Let me stop you there.

Until enmity was basically non existent (ie how it is today) Tank damage was equivalent to threat so it made sense that tanks were required to do decent damage to maintain a threat level against the DPS (Despite the DPS having multiple threat reducers at the time).

The larger half of Enmity even back then, though, was the Enmity modifiers. Hitting for a 2.2x5x3.5x (38.5x in total) modifier on a DA-Power Slash, for instance, meant that 300 (->440) potency went a loooong way, Enmity-wise.

So even then there wasn't so much a necessity that tanks should deal high-ish damage, so much as just that they needed sufficient Enmity modifiers as to reach sufficient Enmity in total. (See Flash over Shield Oath Total Eclipse.)

Hi could you please remove Confiteor?

It's too confusing and I feel worried that people are going to blame me for not doing enough DPS if I forget to press Confiteor, especially when I get stressed during high-demand tanking situations.

It's already hard enough to refresh Goring Blade on time because it's so frequent every 30 seconds and I just really think if you want to have DPS buttons like Confiteor then you should just play a DPS and let Tanks be for people who want to Tank.

Worry not, concerned player, we already reduced the frequency with which you can use Goring Blade to just once per minute. And it no longer asks you to juggle it opposite Blade of Valor!