Originally Posted by
Cryopathy
The attitude that "tanks should tank, DPS are responsible for the DPS" is outdated and ignorant of how the game works now. Tanks can do as much or even more damage than DPS can in some situations, and in terms of item level, a better weapon is the biggest damage increase that a Blood DK can get. Your raid's total DPS is the only thing that matters, not the individual DPS of each player. Sometimes it's better for the raid's DPS to give a weapon to a tank; sometimes it's better to give it to a melee DPS. When the gear and skill level of the players are similar, chances are it's going to be pretty close, as Auk showed in his sim results.