Paladin too overpowered, nerf their damage output!

[Yeol]

I've seen many detailed explanations for why the tanks currently are not balanced.

I would love to see more detailed explanations for why people think they are in fact balanced, as opposed to just statements not backed by reasoning.

According to FFlogs, they are balanced.
Don't forget that after 4.0 changes came (4.05).

If we were still talking about 4.0 then I will agree then they were not balanced.
But now they are.

[ovIm]

According to FFlogs, they are balanced.
Don't forget that after 4.0 changes came (4.05).

If we were still talking about 4.0 then I will agree then they were not balanced.
But now they are.

They are balanced in terms of DPS, that is correct. However, PLD brings a lot of raid mitigation skills that the other 2 classes do not have access to. The tanks being roughly balanced in one aspect does not mean they are balanced.

[Freyyy]

According to FFlogs, they are balanced.

You can't say that tanks are balanced solely because they are very close to each other in terms of DPS only. There's more to tanks than just their DPS. It's like if all DPS classes had exactly the same DPS, would you say that they'd all be balanced ? Would SAM, MNK and BLM having the same DPS as the likes of NIN, BRD and MCH be balanced ? No. It's the same for tanks.