Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
The problem in Stormblood wasn't identity. It was that it was uniquely bad.

DRK had the lowest damage output by a fairly large margin.
After all these years, I can't believe you still believe this. Some things never change in light of hard numerical evidence. Let's take a look at some high uptime fights. We'll start with alte roite in deltascape. Across all percentiles, DRK had an average of 3.2k dps while WAR had an average of of 3.5k. a difference of ~300 dps from the highest DPS tank to the lowest DPS tank is not a "large margin." Even in fights that supposedly would favor WAR over DRK with more downtime, the DPS difference actually decreases.

during sigmascape, same story. In a high uptime fight like godka, we see a dps difference between WAR and DRK, the highest and lowest respectively of ~200. The disparity shrunk from last patch, even accounting for 4.1 WAR's buff. How about that? In a fight with more downtime like o7s, the difference jumps up to ~300, but again, this difference is less significant as both WAR and DRK were now putting out 4.2 and 3.9 respectively. Again, not significant in the grand scheme of total raid DPS.

Then during the last tier in alphascape, we actually see DRK beat out PLD in every single fight across all percentiles.

What "large margin" are you refering to?