I hate this game for turning into tank game now. I absolutely hate tanking. If I liked tank games, I would rather play Armored Warfare.

You get my vote.

In free plays, tanky builds are useless, because you reset when you stop instakilling. But tanky crusaders come very handy when you are desperately trying to do the last levels of a hard objectives...

Believe me, there is NO WAY that tanking builds allow you to progress to very high area. They can help you in the last, hard levels of a particular objective, but they lose effectiveness quite soon. And that is because, the longer a monster attacks you, the higher his damage becomes (something you probably do not know). So, you may heal your crusaders for a while, but if you don't kill your enemies quickly enough, they WILL wipe your formation (both because their damage ramps up, and because they swarm you). Please try to get to area 1000 (but also to area 500) with 15k idols and a tanking build, you will see it does not work.

But even if it did, who cares? It would take YEARS to get to lvl 1000 this way, why should anyone do it?

Yes, I saw you other post now. I was wrong, I just considered pure tanking, without taking into account firestorm abuse. I can't see any reason why people would do it, though, maybe it's just that I'm not much into bragging...

I think it's extremely important for the game that there's no one specific solution to every formation. Having different strategies (focus on one DPSer, tanking, etc.) helps keep the game fresh.