Yoshi P talks about Warriors- from Producer Letter Live @ TGS

[Judge_Xero]

What on earth are you talking about? A WAR will always bottom out on TP before a PLD whether it's a DPS rotation or a threat rotation, it's basic math.

PLD:
70-60-60

WAR:
70-60-70, 70-60-60. 70-60-60 throw in fracture at any time and you'll run out even faster.

Here is a 10 minute parse on Warrior before I bottomed out on TP. Going all out on a training dummy, in Defiance only.
Relic + STR Gear - 5800 HP in Defiance 2.42 GCD



Here is a 3 minute parse of me going all out on an equally geared PLD Shield Oath (Relic/DL stats - VIT/Parry - 5400 HP 2.49 GCD)




Obviously it doesn't matter how much Damage a Warrior can do as a tank. But what I am looking at here is if it's enough to warrant two healers per 1 Warrior. Given that the healers will have more time to do damage as well and/or switch in and out of Cleric Stance it almost puts Warrior on equal footing as PLD given the right party composition.

Even given my own Character. If I was in a party as PLD with two DD's pulling 200 DPS with a solo healer, total party DPS would be ~510 DPS.
My Warrior with two healers and a 200 DPS DD, would require the healers to put out 70 DPS each. The unknown for me since I don't play healer classes is, what's a reasonable amount of Damage a healer could put out in a situation like that.

Edited: Going to have to go with it being very reasonable to do 70 DPS as a healer. With only 360 MND and the Chiran Staff I was pulling 60 DPS on top of healing with just Aero, Aero II and Thunder. I'm not even sure if that's the most effective way on WHM. That does include switching to Cleric Stance to apply the DOT's. So 430 MND + Tyrus, what would that bring it to, ~ 80+ DPS?

So 530 DPS War Party VS 510 DPS Pld party