Originally Posted by
dkdk
We are currently 1/12 HM and other than a few tank deaths because they weren't paying attention in farm content, tank mitigation is not much of an issue. Our pally tank doesn't pay attention about half the time and we can 'almost' always keep him up.
Tank damage can make for a much shorter fight, which if you don't' need to worry about dying, why not do more damage. Maybe for progression on some HM bosses it might be more useful to go full tank, but otherwise why not make the fight easier by doing more damage.