STR or VIT (DRK)

What's most 60 DRK taking? I was vit but now str

If you're running anything that requires healers to heal u fulltime yet won't cause you to get 1 shotted, str is better.

If you're running something that allows the healers to nuke stuff, vit is better as it allows the healer to deal moredamage before needing to top you off again.

Str more dps is more hate and more mana returns from dmg abilities. Harder you hit the the bigger the MP return. Weaker you hit the less you make..

Vitality until your healers know the fight and you are comftorable with busters (if you are new to tanking, you have not seen this. Neither current EX fight has one really. Prepare your bodies for this come Alexander, as its the staple of SE Raidis).

Once you are at that point, you can go strength.

Also I believe your MP returns are flat, not scaled off strength, unless you have blood weapon on (which you wont have on unless you are off tanking anyways). Your siphon blade restores a % of your MP (i think, 9%, same as riot blade).

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Originally Posted by Faytte

Vitality until your healers know the fight and you are comftorable with busters (if you are new to tanking, you have not seen this. Neither current EX fight has one really. Prepare your bodies for this come Alexander, as its the staple of SE Raidis).

Once you are at that point, you can go strength.

Also I believe your MP returns are flat, not scaled off strength, unless you have blood weapon on (which you wont have on unless you are off tanking anyways). Your siphon blade restores a % of your MP (i think, 9%, same as riot blade).

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I've used food, Blood Weapon, and have gotten The Balance thrown on me by an Astrologian in a level 50 dungeon, none of which have seemingly changed how much it gives back. It seems to be level scaled from what I can tell, like the MP heal on Aetherflow.

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Originally Posted by Zorthos

Str more dps is more hate and more mana returns from dmg abilities. Harder you hit the the bigger the MP return. Weaker you hit the less you make..

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MP Return is a flat % of base MP for your level. The only thing that differs mp return at level 60 is your race.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

I've used food, Blood Weapon, and have gotten The Balance thrown on me by an Astrologian in a level 50 dungeon, none of which have seemingly changed how much it gives back. It seems to be level scaled from what I can tell, like the MP heal on Aetherflow.

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Aetherflow is scaled after max MP. The more MP you have the more it will return.

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Originally Posted by Falgern

Aetherflow is scaled after max MP. The more MP you have the more it will return.

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Huh, never noticed it until now. I guess it was the minimal max MP changes between the various patches that prevented me from seeing it.

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Originally Posted by Zorthos

Str more dps is more hate and more mana returns from dmg abilities. Harder you hit the the bigger the MP return. Weaker you hit the less you make..

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Hmmm being a new tank maybe I should go VIT for a time

Depends on fight I guess, on something like bismarck EX, go full str to help with dps checks. For something like T13 where there is a giant tank crunch and you're mt'ing go VIT, just buy a butt load of those resets at GC company for 250 seals each and switch between STR and VIT as you please as you go into raids lol.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Huh, never noticed it until now. I guess it was the minimal max MP changes between the various patches that prevented me from seeing it.

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aetherflow says right inside of the skills info section that it returns 20% of your mana on use...

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Originally Posted by Faytte

Also I believe your MP returns are flat, not scaled off strength, unless you have blood weapon on (which you wont have on unless you are off tanking anyways). Your siphon blade restores a % of your MP (i think, 9%, same as riot blade).

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yes, it is flat.

i just kinda split the free points >.> dark knight uses so many of them so i saw little harm in dropping a few into int and piety as well. probably will change it and just put everything in STR and PIE, don't see much improvement in vit or int to deem them worth it.

35 points in man-mode (str) ^^