My bad, maybe it’s because I said I find soloing dungeon bosses as a tank, thus saving my party from a complete wipe, felt heroic and was fun for me. Since this thread was supposed to about what’s fun about tanking. Naturally, what’s fun for one person won’t always be fun for another.

As someone who only casually plays tank for daily roulettes, yes I do find it fun to be able to imagine myself as a shonen anime hero enacting vengeance on a dungeon boss after it takes out the rest of my team. Because in the past, the healer going down almost always meant a wipe and restart which was not fun, much less a healer dc that often meant a party disband and requeue which was especially not fun as DPS.

I did also say that I wondered if it was necessarily a good thing for tanks to be so survivable that they don’t need a healer for backup.

Not sure what the right answer is here, and of course everyone is entitled to give their opinion and feedback. But I think whatever solution SE comes up with won’t be equally fun for everyone and that’s life. Plenty of other great games out there to play.