Quote Originally Posted by hunter2 View Post


The described situation of healers having a lower damage floor and higher damage ceiling than tanks is exactly what existed in Shadowbringers. I wasn't raiding then to know if it was a problem regarding the tank meta. In Endwalker tanks are comfortably ahead of healers, as they were in Stormblood too afaik.

Personally I don't really care, I think the only important thing is that jobs within a role are balanced and that dps jobs output a lot more damage than support. I just want some more buttons so healing downtime doesn't put me to sleep.
The thing people seem to be missing is there is no way that healers doing more damage can cause a tank imbalance specifically because healers have never been encroaching on the tank role like tanks are on the healer role right now and tank encroachment is worse than it’s ever been

If the healers cause more damage it still doesn’t change the fact that you need 2 tanks specifically because nobody else can do the tank role

Healers doing enough “more damage” over the the tanks to induce healing heavy tank comps to facilitate healer damage both ignores the fact that tank sustain was far weaker in ShB and discounts DPS based healing options

You were literally never bringing a healing heavy tank comp for the reason of facilitating healer DPS