Quote Originally Posted by Samsta View Post
Play a dps if you want to obsess over numbers, I will never understand how it will affect the enjoyment of your gameplay whether or not your parser show a higher or lower number, because it is all relative, the only thing that matters is how much different jobs inside a role deal damage, since content will always be balanced around the expected damage, if they increased the level of tank dps, the boss hp would just be higher. Why does it matter how much different roles do dps? Just play a job that you like and try to your best inside it's expected damage, that is what the game expects of you. And btw white mage should not deal more damage than tanks, something is wrong in that group if they do, either the other healer is solo healing, whm is hugely better geared or the tanks are bad.
Ha. I play all of the roles and I'll tell you now that players of every role obsess over numbers.

In any case, it's also about the effort to actually deal damage in the first place. When I swap between SCH and tank there is a great difference in how much work I put in to dps. When I deal damage as SCH, it's just incredibly simple by comparison. Sure my tank jobs deal more damage, but it's considerably more work for what feels like only a little more damage. The healer role currently feels very satisfying because I can do good damage while keeping the entire party alive with tons of healing output. Dps roles are also doing a ton more damage this expansion. Maybe if tanks had nothing more than a simple 1-2-3 rotation and/or more active and powerful party mitigation I'd feel differently, but that's not the case.