Apples to oranges is irrelevant and I'm tired of reading it. If it affects the overall versatility of a class then it has to be balanced and you won't find a balance till you try. The current tank balance is off, at least in DRKs case. Could easier balance be achieved if every class had the same skills? Obviously so... then we may as well all be playing pld with different skills.

Redmage can raise and upkeep a tank, how do you balance that into a DPS category without lowering their dps in the first place. How do you balance support skills vs dps? Is that bananas vs apples or something? They are different but they still require balancing, that's all there is to it. You can't have every class do 3k and one class bring an arguably useless utility that gets used for personal utility anyway, one class bring a useful utility, and another class have 4 utility skills.