Tank Damage

[Lanze]

What happened to tank damage exactly? Tanks got a massive nerf in terms of damage output compared to earlier expansions. I main Warrior but play all tanks or previously raided with them, I might get banned here for mentioning some of this but i don't mind, as i rarely ever post here. Theres this picture going around showing all jobs DPS numbers on dummies. Where all tanks sit around 6300+ DPS, And healers being very close behind (WHM is 1000 ahead of tanks) In stormblood i could do a solid 6000 on warrior. So did all other jobs get boosted too much or did tanks get nerfed, Can't tell. Also i don't see how a healer who presses 2-3 offensive spells can do more or equal to a tank that has to follow a rotation and weaving. This turned more into a rant than anything lol But hey. have at it

[AleXwern]

Never did they say tank dps would get nerfed, it's just that dps stances went away. In reality dps stances itself did basically nothing, and since the rest of the kit is intact tank dps stays the same/is buffed because accessories have more STR.

[Lanze]

Never did they say tank dps would get nerfed, it's just that dps stances went away. In reality dps stances itself did basically nothing, and since the rest of the kit is intact tank dps stays the same/is buffed because accessories have more STR.

But we got Tank Mastery trait as a replacement. deliverence was only 5% I dont how it would make that much of a difference

[MerlinCross]

Never did they say tank dps would get nerfed, it's just that dps stances went away. In reality dps stances itself did basically nothing, and since the rest of the kit is intact tank dps stays the same/is buffed because accessories have more STR.

And yet people are going to complain tanks don't do enough damage due to... reasons? Or for Reasons. I dunno.

[Doozer]

I haven't noticed a change in tank DPS at all.

[Lanze]

I haven't noticed a change in tank DPS at all.

That's what i mean by nerf, Every other job got an increase in DMG. we just stayed the same as we did in SB

[ADVSS]

LOL read the description on tank mastery closer. Back in HW we were against them making VIT a part of tank damage, because we were STR tanking. Cant meld primary stats like str into gear anymore? They totally did what we thought they were going to do. And I can guarantee you, no matter how hard they try, there will still be tanks out damaging DPS, when they figure out how. They gated tank DMG. Like they wanted to, in return enmity is an after thought. I'll be clear about this, but I wince when i see people insulting others for mentioning the loss of the enmity combo, because this is a long stringed up thing. Those combo's were still necessary until they shifted tank main damage stat to vit/str split then had to jack enmity gains to compensate. The dmg did get reduced immediately after the patch as well, but it inclined. Then SB happened, everyone forgot. People tanking out of tank stance was the thing as normal, to the point where this is where we're at. They fixed every complaint others had for tanks that preferred to go the damage route. This is what we got.

[shao32]

we lose slashing down debuff, idk if was compensated somehow, but we gain overall more dps for tanking in tank stance so meaby we are a bit tunned down compared to SB.

[Lanze]

we lose slashing down debuff, idk if was compensated somehow, but we gain overall more dps for tanking in tank stance so meaby we are a bit tunned down compared to SB.

All jobs lost slashing/piercing/blunt. But they got more buffs /potency which further boosted them quite high. I remember when people leaked the new fell cleave from warrior which is at 920 potency. people started saying it was OP. But the skill itself doesn't hit much more than a fell cleave in SB with trick attack.

[Exoxo]

Those numbers are only what is required to kill your respective dummy and has never been exactly representative of what the class is actually capable of.

3rd expansion, 3rd SSS and people are still making this mistake.