Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
The main problem I have with what was said here is that it assumes something that the dev team has straight-up said is not happening, and that is anymore A1-4s-style DPS checks, and it also assumes that if any change is made to a job or jobs' outgoing DPS ceiling that even the highest DPS check for a concurrent raid would not be adjusted accordingly to reflect that.

You're not the first to assume this, but it is frustrating to see people catastrophizing about nerfing tank DPS=won't be able to clear raids that aren't even out yet, as though they would keep the DPS checks at a level that assumes the nerf never happened. Why people think this is a certainty escapes me. Have a little faith. Just a little.
On release day, typically dps checks have been fairly brutal due to ilvl discrepancy and gear transitions. I'm not assuming dps checks will be as high as current savage tier, and I never stated that "tank dps = won't be able to clear raids. In fact i don't even think I insinuated that. It's undeniable that pentamelds have been a thing in the previous raids, and that this was done to ease dps checks that also weren't as high as savage. Regardless of whether or not dps check are as high as current tier there will be dps checks and doing them on release probably won't be faceroll easy. My point was that outwardly nerfing tank dps would increase the burden on other members. It's an assessment of math. (If you'll remeber the current savage tier was balanced "without the input of healer dps" according to the devs yet was impossible to clear on day one without healer dps. This is because raids are balanced on the next teir of gear that we don't have and time gated so we won't have it day one. Of course it's all speculation as we don't have any concrete facts and I have faith in the development team that they aren't going to nerf tank dps for no reason as that wasn't the issue to begin with, in essence that was the opposite of the issue hence the demand for penatmelds. My explanation was more so why I thought this. I have no doubt that the raid will be balanced for the ilvl increase of the new gear, however as someone who will be going in day 1 I won't have the option of that gear right away and will be taking these raids on at the current lvl gear. But we will see.