As others have said, no, definitely not. You don't have to be a master of all. If you're a good tank, and you play tank, you're a good player. You don't need to be theoretically good at something you're not actively playing to somehow get you MMO street cred.
I WILL say however, that at least getting reasonable experience in all roles will help you become better at your chosen role. You don't have to be good at them in the end, just gain some details on the perspectives you wouldn't even usually think to ask, and you will end up synergizing on a completely different level with your groups.
It's not a must, like nothing in the game is (just wanna make clear you don't have to torture yourself haha), but I do think it's worth it and I've definitely met my fair share of players where you could tell that that kind of experience was lacking and holding them back in comparison to others.
I guess the question you have to ask yourself is, are you happy being a tank? Or do you want to be dps but are afraid to? If you are happy being a tank, then by all means and Razum Dar's mohawk, keep being a tank. I also lack skill and dexterity due to carpal tunnel and don't dps in vet content, so I mainly heal or tank. Honestly I love tanking. I love being the meat bag being tossed around with the apocalypse raining down on me, but I'm not 100% awesome at it yet. I shine best as healer, and I like that too because it's easy and less stressful in group content. I find dps rotations to be extremely stressful and hard on my hands, plus with all the addons peeps have where they can brag about their numbers quite frankly embarrasses me, so I mainly solo quest content on dps or do normal group stuff. Figure out what role you actually love, and do the work needed to be great at it, and just enjoy yourself.
CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Honestly, I'm a little confused by this existential (in ESO) question, and thus decided I wanted to put it here.
I should stress, nobody has called me a bad player for a very long time. I only tank, as the title suggests, and if I do get a comment, it's usually "You tank with a Nightblade?!" XD
No, the idea that I might be a bad player comes entirely from myself, and my own thoughts.
Now, given that I freely admit I'm a bit rubbish at DD, would I be right in thinking like this? Or am I actually making a good choice by focusing on the role that I'm actually good at?
I guess I'm just curious as to what kind of player this all makes me.
Many thanks in advance.
CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »I guess I'm just curious as to what kind of player this all makes me.