Quote Originally Posted by BarretOblivion View Post
WAR did not get enough buffs which is why it’s dead last from being to.
No. War is slightly behind because their damage scales stupidly well with greater and greater amounts of Crit due to their auto Direct Crits. Come 5.55 War should have the highest dps even without any potency changes.

Drk only got bug for carve/bloodspliller and soul eater combo stayed the same.
Hard Slash went from 150 to 200, Syphon Slash went from 250 to 300 and Soul Eater went from 300 to 400. The damage from DA was normalized during SB: Each use of DA increased single target potency by the same amount save for CaS. All the DA potency buffs were turned into Edge of Darkness/Shadow's damage.

If you were to scale SB to ShB in tank contribution to dps we are down about 1k from what we were beforehand to the lowest dps. Keep in mind that dnc is now the lowest dps and the entire physical ranged role will be buffed in 5.1 meaning the gap is just going to widen. With no buffs tank contribution is going to drop further with a likely hood of healers passing tanks in group damage contribution. Meaning, tanks get gear last, tank interest drops further, and other roles will have to pick up the slack where tanks are lacking in.
It is not going to widen as you think it will. Tanks are getting the same amount of Strength and secondary stats from gear as Dragoon, Monk and Samurai are getting. The difference in damage comes from the differences in average potencies between the two roles. Tank should end up dealing the same relative amount of damage when compared to dps in 5.0 as they will in 5.55.