No, that's the tanks role. More often than not a tank is a free kill to any non-tank. I haven't seen any tank on tank action but I bet it's hot.

Look at any of the threads discussing tanks and mitigation, you have very few " defensive bonuses " in pvp and against a sorc. Fewer still

What defense is there for force damage? It can't be dodged, parried, or shielded as far as I know. There seems to be a few topics in the forum right now discussing this.

It's the silence from the tank and pvp devs. That's even more upsetting than the total waste of stats that my "PVP" gear gives me. Perhaps take the absorption and defense stats and split them between endurance and expertise to make us real PVP tanks.

This As a Vanguard with 7 pieces ( counting implants and shield ) of champ gear I have been rocked so hard in that first stun ( less than 30% ) I was running scared. Every OP says they're squishy or they can't damage tanks and it's a flat lie. Look at how much of their damage a tank will mitigate - there are plenty of threads right now addressing the sorry state of tank's in pvp. I've had the pleasure of running against a OP who had guard cast on him, for a "squishy" he held up well ...I mean he never died the whole match but thats o.k. 'cause I died enough for the both of us.

I don't know what good a tank will do against a good OP, other than taunt and bring another stun. It's not like they don't stomp geared tanks down. I've been destroyed by OP's in about 5-6 seconds as a shield spec. Vanguard, with most of the mid tier pvp gear on ( haven't got the helmet and not quite valor 60 yet ). Their knockdown opener combo's has taken me from full health to less than 25% before I could even get up and then it was vanish only to finish the job seconds later. So in your opinion with OP's it's a game of rock paper scissors but it takes 4 geared rocks to beat your scissor, yes that sounds fair.

So spike damage is BETTER for a tank? cd's are great ( and vanguards DO get the smoke grenade on a 1 min. cd plus the shield on a 2 min. cd) but for tanking or pvp don't discount high armor and absorption ( both help me when I'm CC'd while cd's don't ), not that JK's don't have both . I don't feel vanguards are lacking in survivability, a little more burst damage would be great, but that's because I'm a tank and not a commando so it's to be expected.

Then welcome to our little corner of TOR. There are more Imps than Reps here but we do fine

This. I was in beta for 7 months, 1000 times this