Would tanks be okay if SE swapped the damage between tank and healers?

[Shurrikhan]

It's just more about the idea that if healers wanted to do more damage it doesn't necessarily need to be in the form of direct damage increases.

That's fair, and is certainly. possible. I just don't really see offensive raidbuffs, specifically, as thematic for any but SCH and AST, is all -- not because I want raidbuffs constrained or anything else, but simply because it feels to me like giving WHM or especially SGE those buffs would make no more sense than giving them to SAM, VPR, or BLM.

[whiskeybravo]

That's fair, and is certainly. possible. I just don't really see offensive raidbuffs, specifically, as thematic for any but SCH and AST, is all -- not because I want raidbuffs constrained or anything else, but simply because it feels to me like giving WHM or especially SGE those buffs would make no more sense than giving them to SAM, VPR, or BLM.

True enough. Nobody really likes it when they get stuff taken away, even if it ends up being a wash in the final results. Others have mentioned turning various things in to Role Actions to help alleviate balancing restrictions and that's not a bad idea either. Either way there's no 1-shot solution to all this, some combination is going to be required and hopefully we can throw enough stuff at the wall to end up with something decent.