State of Dragoon?

[Hierro]

In what content and what percentile are you cherry-picking DRK as doing more dps than WAR now? I'm also curious what your metric is for mitigation, especially given how broken Holmgang is.

If you've getting outplayed on WAR by any other tank, might I suggest Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest as being a title pitched at a more suitable skill level?

the fellas at the balance have mathed out dps for every tank and found drk to be the highest, doncha kno?

[Lyth]

Everyone is theoretically the best in their own minds. Reality tends to have different opinions on the matter.

Target dummy rotations tend to diverge from what happens in practice because fights don't work like that. You lose uptime. The boss goes untargetable. Sustained dps invariably loses out to burst. This is where WAR, with a 10 second dummy-proof burst window which accounts for most of their dps, tends to pull ahead. That's also why the gap is largest at lower skill levels and narrows to a slightly more reasonable difference at higher skill levels.

[Jinzhu]

the fellas at the balance have mathed out dps for every tank and found drk to be the highest, doncha kno?

That's only in an isolated dummy fight situation. WAR overtakes due to job design. No fight this tier is 100% uptime so the calculation represent no actual fights this tier.

[Hierro]

That's only in an isolated dummy fight situation. WAR overtakes due to job design. No fight this tier is 100% uptime so the calculation represent no actual fights this tier.

You can argue WAR also lags behind due to job design as well, given that optimal DPS is 100% reliant on kill time, and that's just isn't in your hands.

[Jinzhu]

You can argue WAR also lags behind due to job design as well, given that optimal DPS is 100% reliant on kill time, and that's just isn't in your hands.

I'm just quoting what the Balance discord said. DRK suffers more from missed potential GCDs than WAR does.