Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I would say that healer DPS should be relatively the same as Tank DPS at full uptime. The order of highest personal DPS output might then look like:

GNB/SGE > DRK/WHM > WAR/PLD > SCH > AST

SCH and AST being a little lower due to having raid buffs.
I don't really agree that they should be more or less equal, because healers usually operate at an expected loss while tank performance is entirely on their own play.

To me, the ideal scenario would be like this:

WHM > SGE > GNB > DRK = SCH > WAR > PLD = AST

If fights are tuned properly to actually require GCD healing, WHM will end up also being lower than PLD despite being far ahead in an optimal scenario. This is ideal because tank dps is static, they would always be able to achieve maximum dps regardless of what their party is doing, meanwhile healer dps fluctuates a lot dependent on how well everyone else plays.

Given that, I think WHM having the highest dps is fair given that they still would never beat a GNB unless playing in a fully coordinated environment.