Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
You don't need a tank buff to achieve a personal damage high score. If anything, asking SE for a tank dps buff defeats the whole purpose of personal achievement cause it's not personal improvement that's driving up the numbers.
Striving for optimization and wanting more personal damage do not have to be one in the same. Having a higher DPS potential in terms of percentage of how close they are to a pure dps adds the sense of personal growth and reason to push ahead. It is a personal reason, I did not mean to imply they were one in the same, I still strive for optimization as is, even if it personally a crappy feeling that overall my high end is a lower over percentage then the expansion before. Personally it did hamper my motivations for playing, on the top the reasons like the blandness of the wars playstyle but that is another thing. What I was trying to but did not do very well in reply to the person quote was that personal damage number and percentage compared to pure dps does play a large role in the motivating factor and the reason many tanks enjoy the role. Overall having engaging classes / roles across the board is important from a game having means of measuring your performance against others not just within your role is entertaining, while also being selfish.

Did not mean to imply that they are one in the same, they were meant to be two different thoughts in that post.

Granted, I do think people would whine less about overall damage if the tank class was far more engaging in terms of play style and raid responsibility / involvement. Do not get me wrong tanks are still important, but the play style is bland, and the damage aspect really made FFXIV a unique experience.