Quote Originally Posted by Rajah View Post
intrinsically the less damage the tank takes, the less the healer has to heal, now do healers out dps tanks? probably not, but I'm sure they'd appreciate it. besides, I can heal myself.

this makes even more sense on trash mobs, because the pld can heal oneself, whereas the healer probably wants to enfeeble or aoe or something. Half the healers are probably just filling the role to get a dungeon spot and do not actually main heal, so once again, putting less weight on their shoulders makes sense.

Now IDK about you, I am not very far in the game, but I am experienced, I did play 1.0 and beta, I did master FFXI, I know my stuff.

With a full tenacity build I was able to solo T1-T5 completing all but T5 before level 62. I used dark knight for the kill but I used PLD/WAR frequently for the rest

My point is, in my scenario, I wouldn't have done it any other way. I geared for tenacity implictly, reaching practically 1000 ten at such a low level. This made my souleaters strong enough to outlast twintania's enrage. I'll delve into this deeper on a future note but my preference is, TEN > SKILL > DET > CRIT > DIRECT TMYK
The problem is healers have so many OGCD heals that throwing a few heals at the tank doesn't cut into the amount of DPS they can do. For healers that do need use a GCD to heal, it builds up to a stronger attack to make up for the DPS loss, such as White Mage and their lilies.

As for soloing old content, later fights have tight DPS checks due to adds tethering to each other or a lack of bodies to handle certain mechanics. All that extra tenacity doesn't mean anything if you're unable to kill an add that enrages in a few seconds and then smacks you for 99999999 damage, ignoring immunities.