Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
This still wouldn't be the best example to use the current raid design with the current tanks to state what could or couldn't be done.
I just gave the example above to show that adding one extra dps matters a lot for your raid dps due to job synergies and raidwide dps boosts. Balancing a tank (or healer) that's "designed" to be able to solo tank (or heal) contents meant for two tanks (or healers) is NOT as simple as balancing 1 dps + 1 tank vs 2 tanks (or 1 dps + 1 healer vs 2 healers) like you said earlier in this thread:

Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
He makes it sound real important that you "suddenly have 5 DPS"...when in fact, it's just one DPS and one tank that you have to balance against a tank duo.
So yeah, "suddenly having 5 dps instead of 4" is a real big deal, since the raid dps difference is actually more/comparable to the dps of some of the best dps players out there... unless maybe you expect them to massively nerf raid buffs and job synergies in the next expansion (not impossible, who knows?).


As for your next question,

Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
For the record, how did those two groups do on the actual boss ?
I can't find their logs on a9s boss with a solo healer composition. I know it's possible to solo heal that fight (and also solo tank, I've seen it a while ago on reddit), but considering that the fastest clears of a9s boss all have the traditional 2/2/4 composition, I guess solo tanking/healing refurbisher is just not the most efficient way to clear it (cmiiw, maybe someone more knowledgeable about this can elaborate).