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

[Ayan_Calvesse]

it doesn't really matter which role does more damage. Tanks don't NEED to do more damage than healers to pull their weight. that said, if the only reason to make this change comes from something less than one percent of the community actually does. Thats really not a good or smart idea. Personally, i kind of think every job by this point should just do the same damage with the role variance being the only thing that should be adhered to. 2 tanks 2 healers 1 melee 1 ranged 1 caster. so long as thats represented, the last slot should be reserved for a dps. i don't care if red mage and black mage do the same damage because at the end of the day, why does it matter. the raise doesn't matter, play what you want. I've kind of given up on the idea that the devs will ever balance ranged and melee properly vs utility and this extends to tanks and healers too. so they should go nuclear and make everything do roughly the same damage and then black mages crying that the other casters have utiltiy can just slot in in the 4th slot with any of the other casters and call it a day. bring double ranged if you want, who cares....

Strongly disagree - if all classes do the same damage then you will see a strong skew toward a "meta" which once known will just cast out any other class and ultimately result in further class homogenization and saying the raise doesn't matter really seems at risk of sounding rude a naïve assumption; further the logic of tanks doing more damage then healers I feel is largely because of the fact that the only reason OT's are required in groups is due to tank swap mechanics; if a OT is not needed for a tank swap then they are essentially a filler dps whereas "most" groups in high end content are not getting by with only 1 healer so both are constantly doing something.

[Wayfinder3]

Strongly disagree - if all classes do the same damage then you will see a strong skew toward a "meta" which once known will just cast out any other class and ultimately result in further class homogenization and saying the raise doesn't matter really seems at risk of sounding rude a naïve assumption; further the logic of tanks doing more damage then healers I feel is largely because of the fact that the only reason OT's are required in groups is due to tank swap mechanics; if a OT is not needed for a tank swap then they are essentially a filler dps whereas "most" groups in high end content are not getting by with only 1 healer so both are constantly doing something.

You see that anyway however that only matters for less than 1% of the community. Nobody was locking mch out of progression groups or hindering their ability to play. so tbh, its not that big of a deal