Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
White Mage has about a 5% lead on Astro, and that's 'just as big an offender'?

Yet Gunbreaker has near a 5% lead on Dark Knight, and that's 'getting it right'?

On Titan, these both drop down to 3%. These are simultaneously Big offenders and Just right to you.

Oh, it must be a deficit in healing capability.

But Astro can solo heal Titan, so that can't be it.

Do you see the problem here? You're saying I'm playing devil's advocate, but the fact of the matter is that !@#% isn't adding up.

The claim "You can't do it week 1 without these jobs" is false, because people have, or enough examples of players across the spectrum exist that show it is possible.

The claim "Balance for the tanks is great but the healers is bad" is questionable, because they're near identical with one glaring difference (Living Dead and Benediction).

So what should we be aiming for? Should we be aiming for balance like among the tanks where they got it right?

Because that lands us in balance like there is among healers, and that's where "White mage is just as big an offender."

Which is it?
On Titan, WHM and AST rdps issue stems from the fact that AST is objectively more complex to play and as an absurd amount of layers do to the nature of it's new card system. WHM doesn't have this issue which puts AST in a position similar to NIN where they're trying so hard to just be worse than Glare spam making that 5% completely unfair. GNB is actually a little under 3% stronger than DRK which is less than the difference between WHM and AST while, RDM/MCH and BLM is about a 13% difference. MCH is a pure dps too like BLM btw.

AST can solo heal titan, not like they had 5 dps, 2 Addles, 1 Shield Samba, 1 Improv, 1, Mantra, 2 reprisals, 2 Tank invulns, 2 Tank Shields and an Extra dps which means a Huge extra chunk of damage, and Titan Maximum does like no damage until orogenisis in the end. So yeah, AST is perfectly fine and this instance proves it >.>

Tank Balance is better than healer balance, the difference between the lowest tank Warrior and the top Gunbreaker, is about 3% which is better than the roughly 5% difference of healers and the effort placed between the top healer and the bottom one. both are no where near as bad as DPS