Do tanks need a dps buff to keep up with the current state of dps?

To be honest I suck at being a tank but interestingly enough it's never an issue with good groups as they know how to adapt.

So in the end, apart the gear, it all depends with who you are grouped with.

I fully understand what you are trying to say and I agree that the vast majority of the people playing this game will never look into how to play their class to the most of its potential.

However other games have attempted to make class changes all in the name of making something easier.
WoW is a horrible offender of this one.

Now what you are asking is a simple one I will admit. Simply increasing the amount of DPS that Tanks put out instead of actually making the role itself easier (removing abilities).

However it is an extremely slipperly slope (started with good intentions) that will end with the over simplification of all classes in the game.
WoW started out the same way. They started with small changes here or there and continues to the **** that Pandaria brought.

You cannot expect the average tank to hold aggro on a boss vs dps that are above average. An average tank can easily hold aggro against average dps, especially since they have two taunts and the dps, should they get lucky, also have an aggro dump. If a dps does not know how to use aggro dump when the boss is hitting them, then that dps is not average, but piss-poor, and should be told accordingly as all they do is f- up for everyone else.

Please tell me why the average tank should have it easier to play their role, compared to the average dps? A dps that does not know a decent rotation will fail every and all dps checks corresponding to his gear level. Why should it be different for the tanks?

Broken? How so? Knowing when to taunt is very important and if you are decent tank threat shouldn't always be on cool down. If you are tanking and spam your taunts you aren't an average tank, you are below average and that is how it should be. You don't start a fight with a taunt, it is a situation skill, not a part of any rotation. Again, as it should be.

The same is true for threat dumps. I have a well geared Sent along with my tanks and I occasionally may pull a boss, I use the threat dump then, but that is rare occasion to be honest. It is not a part of any rotation.

No, the game isn't broken. To be effective at end game you have to know your class. It comes with experience. That includes knowing how to manage threat. That is not and indication that the game is broken.

This is a great question, so thank you for asking it.

A below average dps that doesn't know a decent rotation doesn't cause a SM ops run to fail; they don't cause a flashpoint run to fail; they don't really cause any problems...they just make things take longer to accomplish. There simply are not below average dps on NiM operations teams that will ever see a true dps check.

in contrast, a tank that cannot hold aggro will indeed cause an ops or flashpoint run to fail. They will be called a fail tank. They will have groups rage quite on them. And here's my point: they don't know why they are failing! Seriously, no MMO out there makes holding aggro as difficult as it is in SWTOR. NONE.

Comparing tanking to dps in general, I would say every tank must be able to play their class better than every dps, to be considered average at either. Straight up. In SWTOR, tanking is simply harder. in almost every fight, tanks have more things to keep track of and more overall responsibilities that they need to maintain, for the team to be successful.

I think we all understand that it is quite true that with a "bad tank" there is almost no way for the group to succeed. A tank that faces a boss toward the group, that constantly stands in stupid, that doesn't pick up the adds in a timely manner, that doesn't watch their "stacks" and swaps before they die, etc., is simply impossible to workaround.

Outside NiM content, a DPS that fails can be worked around. You can rez at least once. Heck, you can finish the encounter with them dead (I can't count how many times my group has been relieved our melee dps simply die during HM Tyrans, so that they don't leave fire puddles on the tanks). Their dps makes things faster, but it's not a factor for success in 99.9% of the pve content in this game.

I'll repeat my position: tanking is harder than it should be in SWTOR, and a significant reason it is harder than it should be, is that a standard tanking rotation does not generate enough threat to keep up with a standard dps rotation for a tank and dps of equivalent gear. Add gear imbalances to the mix, and the AVERAGE tank will struggle to maintain control during any fight.

This is a game, not a homework assignment... the idea that most players, or even many players, will visit forums or even KNOW what parse is... is crazy...

They log in and want to play, not study...

They outnumber you 20 to 1... maybe 50 to 1... the idea that there is much of a future in games that require STUDY of parse logs and visiting forums to learn tanking... is just nuts...

You don't have to like it, but I speak the truth...

Yes, don't increase the DPS, but do increase the threat multiplier...

Instead of 2 points of threat per DPS, make it 3... that would keep actual damage the same, but make it much easier to hold the enemy in place.

Remind me how much end game content we've gotten in the past year?

DF/DP? That's about it...

Way, way too many people are all hardcore and think everyone else should be as well. Most people aren't, most people have a life and just want to enjoy the GAME.

Yes you say, there is plenty of non hard mode end game stuff for them, right?

Yea, there is, look at those shiny new tactical flashpoints... expect more of those and don't be shocked to find the next ops, if there are any, to have some form of "tactical" aspect to them to better cater to the casual gamer.

Indeed. I could go AFK and eat something. Right now I'm glued to my chair and have to entertain myself by accepting companion missions and sending them out on new ones.

WoW simplified many things, but the way the trinity works is not on of it, and heroicraids are most definitely waaay harder than anything ToR has to offer in terms of difficulty.

WoW actually made the right step, going away from the traditional threatmanagement to active mitigation as main-encountermechanics.

And now tell me, whats more fun. Watching the fight trying to avoid any damage, positioning, controlled burst etc. or having to maintain a perfect skillrotation in order to balance a invisible ressource between the raid?

Dont get me wrong, I like ToR more than WoW, but WoW most definitely has the better Raid-Encounters, simply due to the fact that they modernized their holy trinity.