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[Skandranon]

The main tank is the one who gets all the glory (so to speak). Tanking adds does not require the same quality of gear either, so if you have someone who's constantly off-tanking but doing other jobs as well, he probably won't upgrade his gear anywhere near as much as the main tanks (which will effectively ensure he'll never do anything but off-tank).

There's enough gear dropping to outfit everyone eventually. Now, if it's a glory thing, I respect that, but the answer is: that's an emotional preference and not a problem with game design. If you want the "glory" (which varies between raid groups, not everyone oohs and aahs over the boss target tank) roll a warrior. Druids aren't, as a matter of game design, screwed because they lack "glory".

And there are encounters without off-tanking where this doesn't even apply.

I agree it doesn't apply when there's no off-tanking. But there are no encounters in TK/SSC that involve a single boss-target-tank and no other tanks in the encounter. So yes, it doesn't apply when there's no off-tanking, but part of my point is that Blizzard is designing encounters that from this point forward will all or nearly all include a non-warrior tanking role.

Yes, druids are no good when there's nothing to offtank. Blizzard's solution is to make sure they always have something to offtank.