Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
I wouldn't recommend tanking without Defiance. I performed my parse of 170 DPS over 10 minutes in Defiance.



Warrior requires more healing regardless if you are using STR or VIT compared to Paladin. That's the reason I looked at if you could increase it enough to warrant the extra healer, without a compromise to party DPS.

I could make another thread asking for Dummy Parses from all classes with endgame gear to get a better baseline than my own testing.
You still compromise party DPS because healer with Warrior's DPS increase is weaker than 1 more DPS.


Quote Originally Posted by Paikis View Post
Yes, your numbers do ignore a lot of things. They also can't account for a lot of things. That's because the numbers are based on god knows how many assumptions that simply don't pan out in real-world examples. It is the best that's available, but the parsers tell a very different story. Maybe the parsers are wrong, maybe they all have well geared WARs and poorly geared PLDs. I don't know what the reason is, but every parse I've ever seen with 1 WAR and 1 PLD has had the WAR a good 20% more damage in front of the PLD.


When the maths says one thing, and the tests say something else, I start thinking maybe there's something the maths hasn't accounted for.
120 * 1.2 = 144

Not too far off from that other thread.