I compared abilities with a gaurdian friend (we are both lvl 50), and she had several arts that did drastcially more damage than any of mine. Are you sure about your dps claims? My highest art does 405 max damage (with the rest in the 200-300 range), but hers was over 700, with others above 400... Are you properly using yoru stances? They make a tremendous difference in your abilities. I participated in beta, and therefore had a good idea of what adjustments I had to make and how my new abilities worked. If you just received all of your new abilities now, I'd suggest playing more and re-learning your class before claiming a disparity and demanding dps logs from anyone who disagreed with you. You didn't show any post patch logs to verify your own claims anyway... My dps is drasticlaly lower than what it was prepatch. My guardian friend told me hers was significantly higher. Sounds like balancing rather than disparity to me...
PS Arbitrarily picking categories and giving them equal wieght without sound reasoning makes for a flawed comparison. Your inclusion of the heal when comparing monks to guardians is a good example. The monk heal has little to no impact at all due to the long reuse timer. The principle balance is between mitigation and avoidance. If you look at a monk fully-self-buffed defensively and a guardian the same way, you'll see that the guardian has a higher mitigation advantage than the monk's avoidance advantage. Going back to comparing with my friend, she had about 24-30% more mitigation than me, but I only had baout 20% more avoidance than her. She was also wearing tobrin's eyepatch at the time and did not have a shield equipped, so both her mit and avoidance would increase even more if she were to equip into a full tanking mode.
Message Edited by Bladewind on 09-14-2005 11:12 AM