Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
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I mean even that we're still 500 rdps below tanks, its not like the WOW difference you mentioned of course but is still significant, the difference between healers and tanks is in net value similar to the difference between Mch and Blm and that's without counting how the true measure of a tank value comes from its adps (which is why DRK is so busted) where the difference increases to almost 1k dps when comparing the strongest adps healer to the weakest tank, that in today's standards is a huge leap, and its partially the reason why tank's can replace the 2nd healer so often, because on top of higher sustain from their stats, they are guaranteed to deal more damage, making the run more efficient:


(current tier in adps rankings)

I think the sweetspot should be closer to a more balanced version of what we had in Shb:


(last tier of Shb)

Here the tanks were above healers in adps but healers were above tanks in rdps, more balance should be required ofc, I don't think healers should be that far ahead in rdps but having both roles doing similar damage and not one being consistently 500-1k below the other would mean that replacing one for the other does not come at an efficiency cost.

Of course both are always going to be replaced by a dps when their sustain/mit is not needed but that's something that I think can't be solved for the majority of content as the healing/damage required to justify the existence of a 2nd healer or 2nd tank is not something that can be easily put in more casual content like Exs or below.