Fending vs. Slaying accessories at this point in the game

[dragoelete]

Strangely enough, my healers never had any problems keeping me alive while doing DPS on their own (250 Scholar DPS pre-echo T13). Maybe you are just overestimating the impact of tank HP on a healer's potential to do DPS? Giving up 500 extra Healer DPS because the tank has 3k HP less... come on, no one is going to believe your claim. The healer's DPS is not crippled by the tank having less HP, it gets crippled because people (including tanks) screw up mechanics and eat more damage than the healer anticipated.

And no, my healers do NOT have to pay more attention to me just because I'm not running around with a 22k full vit warrior build. I know when tank busters are coming, I know when there are periods of sustained heavy damage, I use a apprioriate cooldown rotation for the fight and if the shit hits the fan somehow, I still have holmgang and Equilibrium.

I'm not a hardcore STR fanatic either. I would definitely use fending/melded gear when the fight is new and I'm maintanking, but not when it's on farm status and I'm offtanking.

yes and thats the problem while you may know when its coming not everyone does and this is sort of a guide for people on weather to use STR or VIT as a tank. so while you know what to use and when to use it some dont and will look at this like "o... look at all the people recomending str, maybe i should use it." while not haveing a clue on how to mitigate the damage they are taking properly. therefor it would be better to have the extra "cushioning" that vit gives you.

[Hundred]

yes and thats the problem while you may know when its coming not everyone does and this is sort of a guide for people on weather to use STR or VIT as a tank. so while you know what to use and when to use it some dont and will look at this like "o... look at all the people recomending str, maybe i should use it." while not haveing a clue on how to mitigate the damage they are taking properly. therefor it would be better to have the extra "cushioning" that vit gives you.

But thats the main point of Vit. You run Vit because you don't know the kind of damage you take. When you do know the damage you're going to take it generally reveals itself to be less then the amount of Vit you have currently so you start dropping Vit.

Vit is still valuable and frankly after running it and doing parse brags, I don't find full slaying very attractive either. Melds are delicious.