Quote Originally Posted by J-Reyno View Post
Thanks, so let me ask you: do you think that going by these numbers healers received a larger damage increase in Shadowbringers than tanks? We could definitely bump the combined contribution of the tanks in the Voidwalker log by 400 dps if we want closer to 99th numbers, but AST also exists. So what do you think, does healer damage contribution look to have received a greater increase than tank damage?
Overall, yes, but that's primarily White Mage. It brought no raid damage increases and still doesn't, but at the start of Shadowbringers, it was given the heftiest potency boost to make up for it while Astro and Scholar trimmed down some. Scholar and Astro have since been increased to try and close that gap.

The tank changes centered around equalizing Tanks with the Warrior. The warrior, due to the Slashing Debuff, was 8-10% ahead of any tank without a slashing debuff, but it was also very hard to form a raid composition that didn't take Slashing. Monk, Dragoon, Dark Knight, and Paladin wasn't a common melee set up.

The warrior certainly increased less than the healers by a fair margin. The Dark Knight and Paladin got larger relative increases due to being tuned around there no longer being a slashing buff to exploit.

Tanks got tuned around Warrior, and Healers got tuned around Astro. Of the two, there was less discrepency between the lowest of the Tanks to Warrior than there was of the lowest of the healers to Astro, especially after they folded the power of removed / reduced raid damage buffs back into the job. So while on average, 'healers' saw the larger gain, at the end of the day, the state of the game isn't so far off where it was in Stormblood's end. (You rarely, after all, deviated from 2 tanks and 2 healers)

I do acknowledge that it's not satisfying. That single Balance might be the Astro's damage, but they gave it to me and that means they trust me. While the end result and source of the damage hasn't really changed from a perspective of mechanical balance, I agree it certainly does take away some from Job satisfaction.

And if I'm being honest, I don't have a good answer for that.