The time has come to get rid of enrage timers

[Mavrias]

The point I'm making is that WAR CAN out dps and clear content, and they are BUFFING WAR. The DMG creep is real.

Its not suppose to be like that, WAR is suppose to be a tank.

Thats not a problem with dps checks in content and more an issue with things not hitting hard enough to make "struggling to stay alive" a thing. I can stay in tank stance all throughout Shinryu for example and we'll still clear if the dps is doing okay at worst. But why would I? Its wholly unnecessary and I could be contributing more by - guess what - dpsing. The whole encounter spent turtled up in tank stance is both boring and a waste.

Unfortunately, SE has opted to make encounters easier rather than harder, with the exception of ultimate. So, there will never be a time outside of progression where your tanks will be entirely focused on staying alive.

[Bobs]

So, there will never be a time outside of progression where your tanks will be entirely focused on staying alive.

Everyone is a DPS then. That sounds boring. If everything is a DPS we should just play a FPS or MOBA or Fighter. Where is the challenge? Don't tell me DPS is a challenge, people just look up whatever the rotation is and do that. Memorizing a DPS rotation is not vary challenging.

[Mavrias]

Everyone is a DPS then. That sounds boring. If everything is a DPS we should just play a FPS or MOBA or Fighter. Where is the challenge? Don't tell me DPS is a challenge, people just look up whatever the rotation is and do that. Memorizing a DPS rotation is not vary challenging.

As opposed to....? Hitting a button in response to an attack thats either telegraphed for ten years or an attack that you know is coming due to it always appearing at certain points in an encounter? That sounds equally as fun.

Every class does dps and optimizing means optimizing dps. Its fine if you don't want to optimize but then you shouldn't demand that content that demands it changes to suit you.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Everyone is a DPS then. That sounds boring. If everything is a DPS we should just play a FPS or MOBA or Fighter. Where is the challenge? Don't tell me DPS is a challenge, people just look up whatever the rotation is and do that. Memorizing a DPS rotation is not vary challenging.

Congratulations. Welcome to the design philosophy of Final Fantasy XIV. Everything basically is a DPS hybrid in this game because nothing hits remotely hard or consistent enough to warrant constant mitigation. Likewise, healing potencies are absurdly high. Only Ultimate has managed to bridge this gap because mechanics are near rapid-fire.

And hitting a tank CD isn't exactly rocket science either.

[HoodRat]

And hitting a tank CD isn't exactly rocket science either.

You say that but just last night people in my static were doing trap parties and complaining about how the tanks they got would pop CDs after they got hit by tankbusters. :^)