How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Shurrikhan]

Jesus... whoooosh you miss the bloody point right over your head.
The fact that another healer who also isn't likely doing 100% uptime is doing almost as much as another entire role that has 100% uptime doesn't show how laughably behind tanks are? We are using the darn healers as a stick to say "hey Tanks have falled too far behind the lowest DPS already because even healers are riding our butts on damage!"
What part of that arguement says "hey healers are doing too much???"

Except that's simply not the case? A Healer with about half the offensive uptime of a tank does about, shockingly, half the damage of a tank. AST is the only one who flexes significantly beyond percentage damage as percentage uptime.

A typical speedrun, the only case in which WHM or SCH outperform a tank, have zero GCDs spent on healing outside of deployed-reci-Adlo or lily skills (and then only to the last multiple of three necessary to feed Misery casts for their 900 potency of damage). That's some 97.87% of the Tanks' uptime. That brings the disparity within 3% despite the fact that tanks already provide greater free output (i.e. without uptime- or other opportunity costs) than do healers.