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(08-16-2016, 09:16 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: On the contrary, I believe defensive cooldowns are as essential to the tank's role as dps is to a healer's role. But also that either role can choose not to do these things and get away with it because another role will cover for them. A healer will cover for a tank not using cooldowns. The damage dealers will cover for a healer not using dps.
In short, my opinion is that if the game gives your class an ability (or nearly a dozen of them) it's probably part of your role to use them, even if it's not your primary function in a party. A tank's primary function is to hold enmity, it's secondary function is to help the healer keep it alive.
Tanking CDs are part of what Tanks need in order to tank. DPS spells are not, in any way, part of what Healers need in order to heal*.
We simply have entirely different viewpoints on what a tank's role is (the idea that tanking CDs are not needed to tank properly is just...it's ludicrous) and is not, so there's not much point in even continuing the conversation.
* Unless, of course, you're playing a Chloromancer, Defiler, or Disc Priest, in which case, DPS spells are a core part of how you heal, and are thus completely necessary in order to heal as they are the entire point of your class/spec and you literally lack true direct healing spells that will work in the absence of DPS.
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