Tank Mitigation vs Tank DPS.

[WaterShield]

Meanwhile, the numerous times all healers are dead on the ground at a rank A hunt or ShB boss fate because they cant avoid this_mechanic_that_kill_you_in_one_shot correctly for the eighth time, i prefer to have more defense to survive longer, to have the time of having at least one of the afforementionned healers be rezzed/spawn in a hurry my chocobo in full healer mode. Having 1% more damage isn't gonna help me when the mob i am tanking is still at more than 75% health and when there is no dps checks on it. The game is not all about how much damage you can deal in savage raids you know.

That is very much not a gearing issue.

You can't over gear mechanics on current content. The issue there is poor play.