So tank swaps to increase Tank DPS?

[ManaKing]

It's starting to look like tanks will be getting some offensive love. PLD gets real damage combo, WAR gets a DPS stance....lol I still can't believe that but i love it, DRK burns mana for extra damage.

I assume that every job will have an ideal uptime for tank and DPS like WAR does currently. <Assumption> And so it's making sense in my head that you'll actually want to tank swap to maximize DPS. WAR takes MT with Unchained + Vengeance on while other tank uses their damage stance + combos. WAR MT runs out of cooldowns and the other tank takes it back.

I don't know if PLD/DRK will have anything like Unchained + Vengeance to increase their damage while MTing, but I have a feeling that DRKs will have a good reason to stop OTing once they are out of MP.

Generally Tank swaps are just for dealing with forced tank swap mechanics so that those rascally FFXIV players don't just bring a 5th DPS like the dev team didn't intend. I think there could be some viability to tank swapping for solid DPS reasons since mandatory tank swaps are probably going to still be a thing.

[Pterois]

would be risky... especially in some of the more intense bcob's where ever single CD counts and less = more. but in everything else i cant wait!

[Ultimatecalibur]

Unlikely. OT DpS might increase, but it will never reach the same levels as a full DpS.

What might happen is fewer enmity fights during content such as CT, ST and WoD.

[papichulo123]

yes this is so awesome tanks doing more damage yippie

[melflomil]

If tank will need to to do more damage you can bet there are gonna be a lot of burn phases

[kensatsu]

a lot of burn phase, they certainly do everything to make Solo tank Strategys useless

[Judge_Xero]

3 Tank parties with tanks going full DPS and just rotating through CDs.
Look Forward to it.

[CGMidlander]

3 Tank parties with tanks going full DPS and just rotating through CDs.
Look Forward to it.

It's likely that the DPS checks early on without high gear / echo would prevent that.

[Judge_Xero]

But....3 tanks going full DPS and just chewing through CDs for tank killers should be better DPS wise than 1.5 DPS tanks and a normal DD no?

[Lynarii]

Depends how fast tank killers comes out. In Final Coil, the speed of tank-killer abilities didn't even really press a single tank hard, it took debuffs like second head or revelation to force tank swaps.