Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
Is it possible that a WHM can out DPS a tank? Yes but only in fringe circumstances where the WHM is playing the absolute best they can, where they don't heal much at all.
And those fringe cases are generally accepted to be outliers and shouldn't be used to balance jobs. Because in average cases of healer vs tank damage, tank wins every time.

Again, if you're concerned about DPS numbers, play a DPS, the primary role assigned to do damage.

Average DPS numbers
^^ That box in the middle is what you need to be looking at, not the very far right edge of healers compared to the very far left edge of tanks.
However, ultimately it's up to SE and they've decided that they don't want tanks and healers to be large contributors to raid damage.
Do I agree with it? As a healer No. I'd love to have more complex things to do during downtime that just 2111111111111. Be grateful that's not your damage rotation from lvl 4 to lvl 80. Do I have to live with it? As a player playing their games, Yes.
This is what blizzard said before they buffed tanks into DPS monsters who could literally solo dungeons (DK).

The amount of tanks in WoW was so pathetic because of this philosophy that was driven in blizzard "dps for dps, tank for tank duuh" people were unable to use DF because it took infinite amount of time to find anything nobody wanted to play useless meat that cant do anything.
FFXIV is not any different in this matter, its even worse.
Not buffing tanks making them funnier to play will hurt everyone in the long run, eot.