Quote Originally Posted by Hawklaser View Post
It's not so much as doing less damage then the tank, but knowing how to keep from creating hate faster than the tank. Does no good doing extremely high damage if it starts getting you or others in your group killed. DRG actually can push the envelope on this more thanks to its built in hate shedding mechanics, too bad its hard to actually hit that point without some of the best gear as is.
This isn't what he was saying at all though. He said he decides whether it's better to build for haste/store TP or whether it's better to gear to take less hate. DRG is great (the best job) at dealing a ton of damage in as short a space of time as possible, and then shedding either all of it (super Jump) or in desperate cases, half of it through high jump.

DRG also has access to a lot of -PDT gear and -MDT gear to help with damage mitigation. Seigan and third eye when outside VW or a perfect defense zerg, and can anticipate taking a large amount of damage and ready healing breath.

Only when all of these fail, or your mages run out of MP to cure, should you then thinking about stopping dealing damage at the fastest rate, and get completely out of AOE range. Hitting the mob more slowly is never the correct option.