How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Nedkel]

Dia refreshing alone has more moving parts to it than most of the tank 'rotation'.

This is not an argument for tanks having the same dmg as healers.

Healers does not have to time their "rotation" since they are ranged casters and could cast from anywhere they want. On tanks you have times off from melee range and you cant just stand there and eat all aoes, same goes to melee dps thus why their dps on average is high.

[Kabooa]

This is not an argument for tanks having the same dmg as healers.

Healers does not have to time their "rotation" since they are ranged casters and could cast from anywhere they want. On tanks you have times off from melee range and you cant just stand there and eat all aoes, same goes to melee dps thus why their dps on average is high.

There is no argument in this thread that is exclusive to tanks.

Having a 'rotation' doesn't mean you should do more damage, nor the difficulty or lack there of in the rotation itself. To say tanks must do more because they push a wider variety of buttons to achieve their damage ignores that Healers juggle their own challenges to free up their GCDs.

That tanks primarily interact with enemies ignores that Healers optimize around maximizing their interactions while tanks get it as a default. A healer should be properly rewarded for that, no?

Healers of all the jobs have the least tools to deal with forced movement - A tank loses uptime when forced out of melee, a healer loses it when targeted by mechanics, with the possible exception of Astro who make liberal use of downtime between mechanics and the Malefic Cast time to shuffle from one place to another.