Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
... you can't overgear leveling dungeons, my dude. At least not the Endwalker ones where we're synced pretty much on par with what's expected and don't have the benefit of power creep. Which is another issue with older content. Ilvl doesn't mean much when the jobs simply aren't balanced whatsoever. Even at ilvl, Endwalker don't require the slightest bit of healing outside of Tower of Zot's massive pull. The tanks simply have too much sustain. When I mention tanks solo-ing bosses, they were doing that at level, on release. I should know. I was one of them. I solo'd Hermes in a hodgepodge of 80-85 gear. He never once got me below 15k.

There were even threads complaining about how insanely strong tanks are when Endwalker released. This isn't simply an ilvl problem, though I'll admit ilvl sync is a problem. Frankly, I think content should be synced closer to its relevant ilvl so things like Weeping City and Rabanastre aren't a shell of themselves. Hashmal used to actually have several mechanics we almost never see even in particularly bad parties.
Can confirm.
I've solo'd Hermes two times while leveling GNB shortly after EW release and had more runs where one or two dps were still alive and I healed them as well. Same for Vanaspati last boss, same for pretty much every boss in Babil. In ShB tome gear, so that argument "You just overgeared it" is moot. And I had a lot more tanks that did the same while I was leveling dps. Saw healer DC right after EW release a few times and we just finished the dungeon without a healer because they couldn't get back in. Single pulls are easily possible on every tank, WAR can just meme the way through wall to walls and PLD and GNB as well if they play decently well.