Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
I think you misunderstood...
You're right, I did, because I assumed you knew what you were talking about. The actual DPS count does not matter in the slightest when comparing classes of different expansions to see if balance is better or worse. If in patch 7.0 pld could do 77k dps and the drk could do 78k dps, that would be a difference of 1000 DPS, and if we have them both be identical in terms of percentage score, that would make them completely balanced despite the large "disparity" of 1k dps in this expansion. It's why we use percentages.

When ranking based off the highest dps, if warrior does 68% of that in both creator and delta, we can go ahead and assume that warrior is the standard and use that to determine how close the other tanks are.

Go a step further and actually see how the other tanks compare if warrior was 100% on the DPS scale, and you find that DRK is 96% of a warrior's DPS and PLD is 86.6% of a warrior's DPS as of creator, and in SB pld is 98% of a warrior's dps and drk is 94% of that same warrior.