How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Kabooa]

So that brings us back to the above. To address that we have the options of 1) increasing tank damage or 2) overhauling the tank jobs entirely while also adjusting healers and all of the game's content. And we're not going to sit here and pretend like option #2 is ever going to happen.

Except this only shows your own inexperience with how the healing role works in this game. Dealing damage -IS- the gameplay of healers in FF14. They actively seek to minimize their healing, to reduce overhealing (and achieve greater efficiency) so they can -deal more damage-.

"Managing your rotation" doesn't come near the amount of hurdles Healers jump through. They not only deal with greater variance due to factors outside their control (RE: Dumb teams), they have to deal with mechanics that they are ill equipped to maintain uptime with, while nearly every basic PF strategy prioritizes melee and tanks. Single button rotations -sounds- easier until you start putting the constraints in context, as well as its multibutton competitors, which for the tanks, are largely linear button strokes, with perhaps the exception of Warrior and Dark Knight by the barest qualifiers of being resource central classes.

Tanks by your metrics don't deserve more damage. They barely deserve equal damage. But even if we were to consider your "99%" to be of greater value, then we still wouldn't increase tank damage, because healers deal damage for nearly equal stretches of time.

You might be dealing damage '99% of the time' but the healer aims for the same goal with infinitely more in their way, so when they can achieve their own fabled maximum damage uptime, despite what obstacles we put in their way, they should certainly be, at the bare minimum, equal to a tank.