Tank homogenization

[Bhearil]

WAR right now is the lowest dps of the tanks with DRK just a bit better (sometimes switch around depending on the fight), but due to homogeneization, tanks dps is a shadow of what it was and the difference between the best and worst tank dps is around 5% between the best and worst. This is not like for example Heavensward where the differences between the lowest and highest tank dps were QUITE noticeable (plus tank damage was MUCH higher in general even getting close to some DPS jobs)

TBN is considered so good because of 2 reasons:
1 It stacks with other defensive skills making the bubble king of defense, plus it scales with tank max HP
2 Self healing on tanks is mostly irrelevant outside of clutch situations which happens mostly on dungeon runs. Of course a PLD and WAR have the best self healing but is not needed as long as you have a proper healer and while WAR self healing helps on AOEing mobs so does TBN popping every time its on cd with 100% certaintly. For good or ill the chances of completing Savage due to a PLD and/or WAR healing are extremely slim

There is a reason why PLD and DRK are the "meta" tanks, and its because tank dps between jobs is no longer relevant due to how close they are between, while tankyness and utility are what define tanks meta now (And DRK position is mostly due to TBN being almost a normal tank defensive CD with just 15 seconds of CD, its basically the best defensive cd right now and you can even use it on others for extra utility)