How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Reynhart]

one idea I have toyed with for a while that would boost every bodies importance is if they removed hard enrage mechanics from most fights altogether.

I think the soft enrage mechanics on certain fights are much better than hard enrage because good healers/tanks can gain a little extra time for the DPS to finish killing the mob.

That's not what a fact is. That's an assumption. And a wrongful one at that. I'll give you an actual fact: I was satisfied with tanks in Stormblood and I am unsatisfied with them now. My issue is precisely with the numbers. For current tank gameplay the numbers are low.

And again, without a 3rd party information, you wouldn't see the actual numbers of your whole team to have such a feeling.

But to quote myself, if managing my damage rotation is going to be 99% of my gameplay, then I'm going to need to do more damage than a healer role who gets all these powerful heals and then has a one-button rotation for damage.

I'm hardly a professional healer, but to push your damage, you need a very good understanding of the fight, knowing how much GCD you can spend on doing damage and healing, how to make your HoT the most efficient, etc...it's hardly "just press one-button for damage". Doing the most damage as a tank have absolutely no impact on how much you survive, while healers doing the same can lead to not enough healing and some deaths, it's a much bigger gamble for them. And finaly, healers having more room to heal can also be tied to how much group mitigation tanks can offer, thus pushing more emphasis on actual tank main focus.