How much difference in damage should the tanks have?

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DRG and NIN have very different playstyles and they have a lower DPS difference than WAR and DRK. it's actually very easy to make two different jobs with very different rotations have the same damage, all you have to do is tune their potencies and do a test run with a DPS meter

"Very easy?" that's pretty much incorrect, While Ninja and Dragoon perform similary, do keep in mind that not every melee dps is even in a similar spot, also when you take into account other fights Ninja/dragoon actually have a lot of different performences. It's clearly not "very easy" to balance the game fully while also making everyjob have a Different rotation.

A complete balance in DPS numbers isn't fun and doesn't lead to a "Intresting game", What is fun is actual differences, upsides and downsides in how a Job plays and what a Job brings, It's not a balanced game when a summoner who has a lot of mobility and utility does the same damage as a black mage, but if you made summoner a hard casting selfish dps then whats even the point of having a black mage and a summoner in the first place?

Again support/utility need to be considered on tanks and healers, again most people who play "tank" and who play "healer" don't want the same utility kit, they should share basic baselines but actually allow for room to excel at, DPS rotation isn't the only thing that needs to be considerd.