Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
As for the DPS not doing the same numbers, that is because, as long as it's reasonably, no matter the setup: You end up with the same raid DPS. Example: NIN does less damage than MNK, but it adds enough DPS to tanks and MNK (and everyone else) that it makes up for its inherently lower DPS. Another example: BRD and SMN do less DPS than BLM, but they have higher up time than BLM where BLM drops DPS as it move while SMN and BRD have DoTs ticking and instants to use while moving.
This is a pretty good example for dps, and I agree with it. It doesn't translate at all to tanks, though, because in this example Warrior would have the highest uptime, the best dps, the most utility, and the most diverse and usable mitigation toolkit. Bringing a warrior to a raid has no downside. You don't 'trade away' anything for it because it is quite simply much better than anything else you could put in that slot because it is the best at the four things I just listed.

And buffing the other tanks to match it will never happen because it doesn't seem like SE understands where the fundamental breakdown is between Warrior and not-Warrior tanks. In that the only way to make other tanks competitive with Warrior is to make them much better at at least one of the above four things.