How do we feel about tank damage right now?

[Kabooa]

I don't ever recall healers out DPSing tanks at any time beforehand and they get the very same buffs we get so.... what's your point? DPS got the buffs too. The game has shifted towards DPS then Healers, for gear priority and DPS priority now while tanks must wait till the end of the tier to get gear because its now 'optimal' to do so.
By all means, argue that tank gameplay sucks, but expecting SE to give tanks reworks when we are a year away from the next expansion isn't going to happen anymore. We are at the cut off time where an entire role would be even considered reworked during an expansion. At this point, take what we can get and at least get Tanks at the point where they should be for damage and importance in these fights, because right now the questions aren't "can a healers solo heal this fight?" now its "can we replace an off tank in this fight?"

Arguing to give them damage buffs also doesn't do anything but address feelings. From an objective standpoint, the numbers ultimately mean nothing so long as the tanks are close enough to each other to not render one invalid, and so long as the tanks are in a suitable zone (Hint: They are). Speed Runners are excellent at abusing the game - But they are not what we should try and balance the game around.

The DPS and other healers (Not White Mage) brought those buffs. This expansion took most of those buffs and folded them back into the classes that brought them. In short - Coming at this from an angle of "Damage Contribution" shows that most of you don't understand what contribution means. Whoever brings that Damage is the one who contributed. You can go back to any logs pre-shadowbringers and work this out to figure out where each class landed on "Contribution".

Hint: The Tanks, Black Mage, and White Mage dip the most. The astro, ninja, Dragoon, and a few others increase the most. "Damage contribution" is not the angle you should be coming from.

Tanks are disproportionately affected by this as the weakened buffs will go to other DPS. The DPS whom they were close to (Bard, Red Mage, Ninja) got their buffs folded back into them. It really doesn't take much to understand how this affects rainbow standings.

Gear priority is a player issue. If you disagree with how your group handles loot, talk to them. The moment your group can kill Shiva, the distribution does not matter.