What is the point of playing tank other than warrior?

[BigCheez]

Jobs are literally already designed fully around being in raids, making them all massively overpowered in anything that’s not a savage raid. If that’s ’perfectly fine’ for everyone then I don’t get why anyone is complaining because by that logic the game is perfectly balanced, jobs are all perfectly designed and I guess everyone dissatisfied should just do ultimates, right?

Pack it up, healers! Your job is just designed for raids, you can stop complaining now!

This is either a very uninformed opinion or a bad faith argument that you don't even believe yourself.

Healing isn't any more engaging in raids than it is in dungeons. The absurd efficiency of healer kits combined with massively oversimplified damage rotations and predictable incoming damage makes healing a snooze in all content. This isn't true to the same extent for any other role.

The problem with healing in XIV at the minute is that >50% of your role is dealing damage and 90% of your damage "rotation" is pressing 1 button.

[CKNovel]

The problem with healing in XIV at the minute is that >50% of your role is dealing damage and 90% of your damage "rotation" is pressing 1 button.

Yes, healing is waiting for damage then healing/mitigating these damages.
Tanks CDs and Warrior self healing just push this problem under the spotlight as the time between damages to heal becomes more important.

Healer kit is definitely designed around high-end content thought, it's kind of normal that you need to ensure they heal enough in these content.
In dungeon, you can protect the tank/stun the mobs until the pack is half dead. SGE can throw short CDs like Taurochole, Kerachole, Soteria and Physis every packs, more than enough to keep a tank alive.
Obviously those scenarios depends on your DPS, if they slack you'll have to throw a bit more, but good luck if you have a PCT.

What SQEX needs to change is what healer do while waiting for damages to happen.
Imagine if tanks were all about mitigation and spamming 1 and refreshing a dot with 2 while waiting for tank buster to happen.

[aiqa]

So why did WAR need a damage buff in the very first patch anyway?

[BigCheez]

So why did WAR need a damage buff in the very first patch anyway?

Because GNB was significantly ahead in terms of damage. I imagine PLD and DRK will also receive potency buffs.

[aiqa]

Because GNB was significantly ahead in terms of damage. I imagine PLD and DRK will also receive potency buffs.

While it was a buff, it's only 40 potency per 1 minute. That can't have made a huge difference. So before that buff WAR must already have been 2nd highest dps tank. I guess PLD and DRK aren't high priority jobs like WAR.

[GoatOfWar]

While it was a buff, it's only 40 potency per 1 minute. That can't have made a huge difference. So before that buff WAR must already have been 2nd highest dps tank. I guess PLD and DRK aren't high priority jobs like WAR.

Yeah, that's pretty much the same conclusion everyone else came to over the past 2 years.
Warrior is more important than other tanks. The devs have been giving it preferential treatment for a long time.
It's cannibalised other tank identities, it's always immediately fixed whenever a change made something slightly worse, and it's allowed to just be a direct upgrade over other jobs.

[CKNovel]

So why did WAR need a damage buff in the very first patch anyway?

They removed WAR's ability to deal double Primal Ruination in 120s windows, in exchange they gave 40 potency as a consolation prize.

[whiskeybravo]

They removed WAR's ability to deal double Primal Ruination in 120s windows, in exchange they gave 40 potency as a consolation prize.

I don't particularly care to min-max like that so I wasn't aware of this. All I can say is that I had a pretty big chuckle when I saw they buffed WAR damage but the other tanks only got enmity adjustments. Adding gas to fire as usual I guess lol

[CKNovel]

I don't particularly care to min-max like that so I wasn't aware of this. All I can say is that I had a pretty big chuckle when I saw they buffed WAR damage but the other tanks only got enmity adjustments. Adding gas to fire as usual I guess lol

This is 7.01, in comparison, 6.01 had no job adjustments, same goes for 5.01 that only adjusted mp cost and 1 buff duration.
Bigger changes should happen in 7.05 but don't hold your breath and lower your expectations.

Even if DRK gained more MP and potency, it would still need a gameplay update.