Tank damage WAR vs PLD testing data and parser

[Traek]

PLD OVERVIEW
Average is = 1196

WAR OVERVIEW
Average is = 1317

Hmm.. lets see.. so you are telling me that their DPS was within roughly 10%? Interesting... Storm's Eye anyone? Keep in mind that if the dummy had SE for PLD, their DPS is virtually identical (actually slightly in favor of PLD) as SE is an 11% damage increase for both PLD and WAR. Yes on it's own WAR will DPS higher then PLD because of this, but all this really means is a PLD/PLD tank combo will do less damage then PLD/WAR combo, which would be roughly equal to WAR/WAR combo.

As far as people talking Fracture, please just stop. Fracture is a TP starve for *minimal* benefit. It also increases risks of debuffs falling off (SE/SP) which are better kept up in nearly every scenario. It isn't bad to tack on for moments of transitions (when you aren't dumping TP into add pickup), but all in all you are splitting hairs if you think it is actually useful.

[RhazeCain]

Hmm, really trying to find how and where this situation with tank doing DPS becomes relevant. I suppose it's like Twintania (pre-2.2) where you have 1 tank that is not taking actual hits, and need to burst DPS something (4 stack conflag in the Twin example). Also, has to be a situation where a tank needs to switch from taking hits to dishing dmg: If it was pure DPS the whole time, then you would just bring a DPS class.

Would be great if SE designed more fights that actually need this. But at this point I almost never see it happening.

[Set]

This was strictly an exercise in could not implementation because of the people that kept fighting over the damage different I wanted to supply empirical data. The usefulness and likelihood this stands on it's own is dumb to even consider but just shows the numbers.

I only did this because of a conversation unrelated on another thread where someone got all pissy because I did some small test that showed paladin doing more damage on low health mobs and their theoretical numbers where dumb. I figured I did the numbers might as well share the results.