Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

[Brian_]

One of us is covering their ears and blind to the truth. It's not me, it's you.

Like I explained earlier, the tanking meta needed changing. You had tanks that didn't know how to play the job running around with less HP than melee DPS pulling entire dungeons and blaming healers when they're dead in 2 seconds. Then you had tanks who knew what they were doing and were pulling DPS numbers that rivaled actual DPS. It was not uncommon that a great tank would out DPS a good DPS. The gap between the top and bottom tiers of tank players was too large.

So how do you balance content when you have tank HP varying from 30k to 15k and high-end tank DPS quadrupling and sometimes quintupling the low-end tank DPS? You can't. How do you tune content when there is a substantial gap between tanks that pentameld STR / VIT and tanks that don't and raid groups force you to meld? You can't. What sense does it make that pentamelded accessories are BiS despite being 60 ilevels lower than raid drops? None. What about the fact that groups would just dumpster their fending accessories and the world first race depended on your group not getting fending right side drops? Pure lunacy. How counter intuitive is it that a new tank needed someone to tell them that they were gearing incorrectly after 60 levels and should not be using the gear designed for them? Best case scenario it's presented to them in a well explained and kind way. Worst case scenario VIT tanks were laughed out of EX roulettes and publicly shamed on forums.

And somehow SE changing all this is a sign that they support your idea of turtle tanks.

It takes a special kind of delusion to look at that reality and see what you have.

They fixed a broken situation. Yes, as a side effect tank DPS was nerfed a bit. That clearly was not their main concern as despite the changes, it did nothing to stop them from pushing DPS despite your horrendous reasoning. Healer ACC? Convenient that they addressed their self-admitted shortsightedness by dropping the ACC needed for dungeons and by adding materia slots to raid gear so that Healers could just meld the ACC they needed.

I've never seen someone be as frequently wrong and completely misinformed.