Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ank-DPS-Thread

It can do a lot of damage. Although the testing was done against training dummies, Warrior doesn't require any special movement for combos. With 400 STR and Bravura, I averaged ~170 DPS over 10 minutes.
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It can't be taken seriously because it's unrealistic for tanking purposes.

No Warrior is going to fight without Defiance and full STR and still be tanking. It simply won't happen. So that leaves you at 139 DPS VIT Warrior vs 120 DPS VIT PLD. Changing to full STR means nothing really, you may do some more DPS but forces healers to heal more often than normal.

In response to your DPS baseline of 200, you failed to see that Warrior isn't going to be doing 170. That's too close to the DPS of true DPS classes' base of 200. Healer isn't even close to DPS class either. I'd say it's barely above 50% of a geared and experienced DPS. Whereas Warrior / Paladin is below 50%.