How much WHM DPS is enough?

[Shurrikhan]

It gets a little trickier trying to find a WHM in a top clear time, but at #25 you can find a WHM doing 2400dps. Worth noting that the AST also did 1900dps.
Even if you scrub the influence of balance from the numbers, it's well above the 1k threshold. https://www.fflogs.com/reports/BM3RD...pe=damage-done

So, I think it may actually be possible that WHM personal dps will be adequate to bridge the gap, given the GCDs we've been given back.

If only people looked at the Monk "issue" as even-handedly...
...and if Monk hadn't been nerfed to such an extent as to now trail in personal dps, given latest tooltips, all excused in the name of adding particularly slipshod RNG mechanics and the lowest-value raid DPS contributor yet (.83% over time).

Everyone accepts that above a certain party DPS threshold, x personal DPS gain may be inferior to y party dps modifier bonuses. Yet few seem to acknowledge the opposite. So long as the particularly high DPS scales at the same rate as the party average, balance is entirely possible. The only issue is that the personal DPS gains that are balanced against raid modifiers in an 8-man will be relatively stronger in party sizes of less than 8, such as dungeon or solo content. Not that there's a Savage mode for any light party content anyways...

[Kethic]

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I'll be honest; I'm afraid all this attention is going to result in a WHM nerf once the actual dps numbers start to come in. If they change our mechanics, we're going to have to pay for it somewhere, and dps is all we have left.