Many Savage PFs are barring PLD and WAR, anyone know what's going on?

Ideally you would be looking at actual DPS to show how good you are at making the best of raid buffs, even as a tank. Thats another skill to have as more dps = boss dies faster.

In reality however, if youre pugging, good luck finding a group that can allign their raid buffs properly. I've had so many dancers (no offense to them, I also play dancer) that for some reasons I dont understand held on to their buff by 10-20 seconds late. They put it out when most jobs are doing their 123 combos lol.

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Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell

Actually thats fair, more I consider it the more that makes sense for tanks to use aDPS instead.

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You generally want to consider both, albeit for different reasons. Like Undeadfire said, rDPS is good when comparing the same tank while aDPS is how well you perform under party buffs relative to other tanks. They're both valuable but aDPS is seen as the better metric because it's less selfishly inclined.