Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

I am tired of seeing so many tanks stacked with vitality. Vitality does not increase healing done to you at all.

To clarify. I am not telling people how to play. Just giving tips for new players and people who are concerned with their healers and such. Healers are fully able to heal you fine through dungeons even if your new in full strength gear.
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On the note of strength acccessories: Sure, understandable.

On the note of staying in tank stance:


If it's a dungeon, not happening. During large trash pulls, sure, swapping back if there's a emergency, fine, but there's not a single dungeon boss that, if everything's going fine, demands tank stance. You get a net gain in party-wide DPS for dropping tank stance for every tank, and a considerable one at that, so unless things are really hitting the fan (and they shouldn't in this content), any competent tank should be in DPS stance.


Unless they're horribly undergeared then they should stay in tank stance.

So "play how I want you to play" kinda thread? Sounds fun.

Yeah that 20-30 minutes in dungeons are a killer.

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Originally Posted by nyttyn

On the note of strength acccessories: Sure, understandable.

On the note of staying in tank stance:


If it's a dungeon, not happening. During large trash pulls, sure, swapping back if there's a emergency, fine, but there's not a single dungeon boss that, if everything's going fine, demands tank stance. You get a net gain in party-wide DPS for dropping tank stance for every tank, and a considerable one at that, so unless things are really hitting the fan (and they shouldn't in this content), any competent tank should be in DPS stance.


Unless they're horribly undergeared then they should stay in tank stance.

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I am usually the tank when this happens.. :(

Here's a novel concept: not every tank is uber-geared...

SHOCKER!

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Originally Posted by Ralvenom

Here's a novel concept: not every tank is uber-geared...

SHOCKER!

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Would rather have an undergeared strength tank then vitality tank.

I'll do what you want as soon as dps stop letting limit breaks sit un used for entire dungeons, dodge telegraphed attacks and not run 2 steps ahead pulling first.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

I am tired of seeing so many tanks stacked with vitality. Bosses taking forever to die.

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If bosses are taking "forever" to die, you might want to talk to the damage dealers first. >.>

As for stance usage, VIT accessories + DPS stance is often going to be more DPS than STR accessories + tank stance, since tank stances impose a flat 20% reduction of damage, which tends to result in more lost damage than is gained by the addition of STR accessories. WARs are in a better place in this regard since they have Unchained and Inner Beast, which ignore the tank damage penalty (but they're also able to swap in and out more easily than DRK and PLD can).

That being said, if your tank is in full VIT, that means you have more globals with which to do damage as healer before you need to heal them, so it shouldn't result in significantly longer kill times if you're doing DPS as much as you expect them to.

While I do agree that the current expert meta does not require vit accessories, and I do use str accessories myself, but we are talking maybe an extra 5 minutes per run. You sir, OP, have #nochill for making a "suggestion" thread telling others how to play.