How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Risvertasashi]

Not really all that fair a sentiment, since 1) these guys are "up there" in terms of player skill in the playerbase, so they all should be expected to be pushing higher DPS than the average player, and 2) on average a tank still does more damage than healers.

Besides, only the WHM was pushing tank levels of damage, which has been a consistent complaint since ShB launched.

Oh it gets even better than that.



A "grey" tank does more damage than a 50% percentile average healer. A lot more. Tanks have the lowest skill variation of any classes.

It is only the best of the best that compete with tank damage. Outside of Astrologian, even at the 99th percentile - the top 1% of the game - tanks outperform healers for damage. You have to look at less than 1% of the population to find those "OMG healer outdamaging the tanks!" logs. At the 90th percentile, tanks simply outdamage all healers.

If anything, tank damage seems a bit high for the low amount of skill the jobs ask for. But rather than nerf tanks, perhaps SE should increase the effort required.