Quote Originally Posted by Leiron View Post
That is bad balancing.
You don't balance around difficulty ever.
Difficulty is meaningless with competent players.
You absolutely do, it is the correct way to do so


Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
To quote the bearded, bald, enraged man:
"DING DONG"

When looking at tank role, which value should you use, rDPS or aDPS?
The correct answer is... Both!

aDPS shows how the tank scale with buffs.
rDPS shows how much they're taxed (therefore how much rDPS they provide to their teammates)

Using rDPS, PLD is better. Using aDPS WAR is better. But in the case of tanks, who are pure DPS, aDPS is the value to go.
Because PLD is a sustained DPS job, it will not scale much better with raid buff, therefore the tax is lower on them.

Once you understand the value of both rDPS and aDPS, you can apply that to DPS.
You can see that SAM is going bonker with buffs, Black mage is above melees and MCH far below melees who provides rDPS.
If you look at rDPS alone, you'd say to yourself "why should I bring a SAM or BLM?" but then you look how much rDPS they generate and go "ooooh".

But we've explained that pages ago.
Tanks are a non factor in this matter, note the subforum. And your entire point is...? rDPS is the correct metric