Some thoughts on Level Sync and Abilities

[Barraind]

The tank trait mastery actually nerfs tank damage by making STR worth less point per point than other jobs.

As someone who has been doing math work on tanks (and crafters), you're going to need to put some sources for that, because its something that nobody else is talking about.

tanks would be doing much closer to dps than they are now due to the fact they gained a TON of str on their accessories the instant SHB started on top of gaining huge potencies to their rotation due to SHB changes, yet were only seeing very minor gains to dps

Significantly more changed besides strength on accessories between 70 and 80. Tanks melded for those stats on accessories prior to this, so the actual gain stat-wise this expansion is almost negligible. You gain between 72 and 120 secondary stats per piece (since you're melding those and not mainstat), compared to the relative value of those slots in SB.

If you want to look purely at tank damage at 70 with everything re-melded, you can, but the relative difference isnt -20%.

[MariaArvana]

As someone who has been doing math work on tanks (and crafters), you're going to need to put some sources for that, because its something that nobody else is talking about.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=687481398

From the theoryjerkers themselves, some nice hard math.

"AP and tank AP added. Tank mastery nerfs damage, so it has different tiers."

Then also in the TJ discord, there have been multiple discussions and maths to show tank's AP is only 2/3 as strong as a DPS's with equivalent gear due to tank mastery adjusting how AP scales on tanks.

The STR on those accessories was roughly 51 at the end of SB, giving it 76 total for tanks who melded. Now those same accessories jumped 100 some odd STR to 171, so tanks even when melded gained roughly 500 STR literally the moment SHB dropped, but their dps hadn't changed from level 70 due to tank mastery changing how their AP was calculated by weakening the worth of STR and nerfing them by 20-30% some odd. My point in bringing that up is to show that tank damage -was- nerfed anyway, as tanks would be doing closer to 11k-12k dps if tank mastery wasn't affecting their AP.