Quote Originally Posted by Quor View Post
Has anyone here been paying attention to the dps disparity that exists between tanks for the first week of P5-8S? It's pretty bad; GNB and DRK are ahead of PLD and WAR by 400-600 dps, which is up to a 10% difference. We haven't had job balance that bad since early Stormblood. Echoing my previous comments on job design/balance/direction, it really feels like things are being phoned in more than ever now, like the job balancing team is burnt out and just going "fuck it" while they throw solutions at the wall to see what sticks. Cave Johnson would be proud, but he would also probably fire them for huffing moon dust.
For outsiders looking in, can't really say until we see more data come in.

Looking at the tier 1 charts, a 400-600 difference falls in line to the differences we saw in both 6.0 and 6.1. Apply gear scaling upwards and extending that lead to 500-600 isn't out of reason. The difference this time around is that it actively walled some "Week 1" groups.

Frankly, I wouldn't worry about it. That wall literally disappeared this week for those who couldn't hop it last week, and it won't exist for all the non-week 1 groups out there, outside Friday+ PFing.