Quote Originally Posted by Izsha View Post
People really overestimate how much dps a healer can gain from minor changes in tanking. A lot of healer gcds go into aoe heals and pre tank buster shields. Most actual tank heals are generated by regens, fairies, party heals hitting tanks and ogcd heals. The rest of the time good healers are spamming damage with the vast majority of their gcds already and a lot of heals are already registered as just overheals.

What tank you play has VERY little impact on healers. Every time you do something nifty does not not directly give your healers more dps. We really arent that big of an impact on them once you are playing decently.

Sure if you are a trash tank your healers will cry. But once you meet a respectable level of play in savage, etc, there is very little that makes a difference to healer gcds when the machine is already rolling. What really hurts healer dps are raises.

Edit: just checked this weeks eden 1 clear. My whm.cast ZERO cure 1 or cure 2 spells. Just regens, ogcds, and medica/cure3s. how many more gcds of dps am i going to give him if i used xyz thing when hes already never casting cure gcds? The best way a healer gains more damage gcds is by healing smarter themselves and not relying on big gcd cures in the 1st place. Not if its a war ir a pld tanking.
That's true, which is why the complaints about WAR and DRK are so vocal. DRK has its issues but overall seems to play adequately to where tanks are playing DRK more than before in SB it seems.
WAR meanwhile saw a gigantic drop in population, harsher than any other tank did even with a new Tank introduced. WAR just sucks to play. Its too slow of a playstlye with very and I do mean VERY little room for improving play with WAR. Its no longer impressive with the fell cleave spam when 3/4 tanks now have thier own versions of fell cleave spamming (PLD kinda has it with the sword oath passive with attonement) and one tank that has a very fast paced playstle. Taking away what made WAR unique and sharing it with its competition makes people realize that it straight up is garbage to play compared to all other tanks... it hurts me to admit this as a former WAR main but its true.

All tanks are viable, but the question should be, which tanks are fun to play right now? According to the numbers... WAR is not fun anymore.