Quote Originally Posted by Basteala View Post
I Totally agree that tanking is laughably braindead, though. I remember going from tank main to caster and healer main in EW and finding out how much I sucked.
I can dismiss all roles as being nothing:
"Tanks just stand there and do nothing, eating mechanics".
"Healers just spam their 1 attack".
"DPS just do damage"

But actually playing each of them you learn otherwise, because certain DPS (especially melees) get very distracting just doing simple mechanics that tanks and healers find easy and they die to things that tanks don't. As a tank you realize you're doing lots of mechanics so that the other roles don't have to deal with them, and considering others' such as dragging things into AoEs and opening back and sides for positionals. As a healer you realize there are fights that exist that require actual prog of your heal rotation.

In dungeons, they're all braindead. Lucky if a mechanic even kills DPS in these since you can get away with eating a tankbuster on a DPS.