Which Tank Does The Most Damage?

[Hierro]

Me.

I'm the tank that does the most damage.

Watch out!

[Liam_Harper]

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...gregate=amount

It's fairly close and varies with percentiles. So pick whichever you like really, but to answer the question GNB pulls ahead and PLD is behind.

[Halfgeeek]

Play whatever tank u like best. In end-game, they are only like 2-3% within each other. In dungeons, again its like 5% max, and within 2-3% generally.

However, for dungeons, WAR are comfiest, because similar dmg output, but they get OP self-healing. Life-steal skills + big AoE dmg = Full heals.

[Hanayumi]

Gnb and Pld tend to be highest cause they have sustainable dps, constant damage, dots, and smaller but often brusts, making them great for longer boss fights. While Drk and War have much harder hitting brusts but have a reduced dps lull time between them making them great at nuking down adds.

[Derio]

PLD and GNB for single target. WAR and DRK for AOE

[Benn]

From me experience:

DPS - GNB
Mitigation - DRK/GNB
Self Sustain - WAR/PLD

Overall I tend to run my tanks like this:

WAR for dungeon I am not familliar with/dont feel comfortable yet. Any mistakes I make or healer I can correct with my own self healing. Also he is super easy and dumb to play so my focus is more on unknown mechanics and Holmgang is best invul of all tanks as MT.

GNB for the content I feel comfortable since I have every defensive OGCD planned so I can focus on his high DPS and GNB is more busy, eganging and has shorter "boring" windows between burst phases. GNB obviously deals most damage, though difference between tanks is not that big, but it is, so no point of ignoring that.

PLD I don't like since he is amazing off-tank and he has tons of support but I don't like off-tanking and I can also really feel that he has one less mitigation OGCD than other tanks. It's not the end of the world but in busy fights I miss it.

DRK is fine, but he feels like some akward mix of WAR who is simpe and GNB with all his double weaving. So it's kind of like.... If I want double weaving I would take GNB and if I want safe tank I take WAR. Not saying that DRK is bad, I love DRK but he is in wierd spot now. He has amazing AOE dps though, but TBN while powerful - I don't like that it costs resources while all other mitigation skills of tanks do not.

Anyway - answering your questions, if DPS is your concern then GNB hands down, especially if you like to MT on high-end content. PLD second if you like to be off-tank more.

WAR if you would like simple tank that it's easy and smooth to handle.

If you played DPS than GNB among tanks is like Ninja or Samurai, very busy with a lot of double weaving.

[NyneSwordz]

Darks do the most damage now I think

[Xrison]

Darks do the most damage now I think

Without a doubt, but I feel like that's only the case if the person playing as Dark Knight has the entire rotation down to a science and is able to execute the entire rotation perfectly. Otherwise, I would argue that GNB has the most DPS.

[Shin96]

Without a doubt, but I feel like that's only the case if the person playing as Dark Knight has the entire rotation down to a science and is able to execute the entire rotation perfectly. Otherwise, I would argue that GNB has the most DPS.

Like that's hard given how they stripped DRK naked of everything in 5.0

[Xrison]

Like that's hard given how they stripped DRK naked of everything in 5.0

Exactly. DRK was my first love in FFXIV. The thought of playing as DRK is what helped me get through the drag of the first set of patch quests. Hell, I even modeled my character after Sid (as you can see). But with all of the changes in 6.0, it's just not viable to play as DRK anymore when the other three tanks offer so much more.