Please add STR to Fending accessories

[Ceodore]

Tanks are there to tank. I don't see the need for strength other than to power your way through content quickly which isn't really necessary if you have good DPS.

You're so cute. SE has in fact stated that they take the DPS a tank can do into consideration when designing content. They encourage tanks AND healers to also dps. Just because you're a tank doesn't mean you shouldn't still pull 1k DPS to down the boss faster. As has been said to me before... the faster the boss dies, the fewer attacks he does, the more you have mitigated. Your narrow view simply means a narrower understanding of mitigation. Your VIT trinkets do not provide any form of mitigation, only survivability. If the fight has big tank crunches that hit for 15k, sure, your VIT trinkets are necessary to survive. But unless this is the case, then they server no other purpose than to inflate your HP pool and the boss fight lasts just that much longer due to your lack of higher DPS.

[Giantbane]

One stock set that is just mediocre at both capabilities.

That's just not true in most situations. Unless you are stacking all slaying or all fending, then the crafted stuff is much better.

Going from full fending to 4 fending + 1 slaying you gave up 40 vit and got 40 str. Going from full fending to full crafted you give up 55 vit and get 155 str. That is a massive boost to attack strength between the two sets.

If you wanted to go 1 fending + 4 slaying, then it's a similar situation. Full crafted allows you roughly the same amount of strength in addition to thousands more HP. There's no comparison.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Strength is so much better then secondary stats.

I would rather it just have strength/vit and secondary stats removed.

Secondary stats are not powerful enough now to not have vitality on every piece of gear.

[Destomius]

Tanks are there to tank. I don't see the need for strength other than to power your way through content quickly which isn't really necessary if you have good DPS.

Except that a tank that can tank while wearing strength gear and not die is still better.

[reality_check]

I just wear strength accessories for dem phatty clemencies.

[Ceodore]

That's just not true in most situations. Unless you are stacking all slaying or all fending, then the crafted stuff is much better.

Going from full fending to 4 fending + 1 slaying you gave up 40 vit and got 40 str. Going from full fending to full crafted you give up 55 vit and get 155 str. That is a massive boost to attack strength between the two sets.

If you wanted to go 1 fending + 4 slaying, then it's a similar situation. Full crafted allows you roughly the same amount of strength in addition to thousands more HP. There's no comparison.

That's the thing, I only ever use full sets of each, never really mix and match. However, my gear is fairly beefy anyways on my left side, so my HP pool still surpasses the necessary requirements.

Strength is so much better then secondary stats.

I would rather it just have strength/vit and secondary stats removed.

Secondary stats are not powerful enough now to not have vitality on every piece of gear.

Ugh... could you not make suggestions anymore? It's like taking a sharpened pencil and shoving it into my eye.

[Aeyis]

Except that a tank that can tank while wearing strength gear and not die is still better.

Except that a tank that is concerned about tanking first and foremost, and only takes dps into account afterwards, is still better.

[Giantbane]

Except that a tank that is concerned about tanking first and foremost, and only takes dps into account afterwards, is still better.

If the fending sets had 50% strength on them, I think you'd end up with fewer tanks doing DF runs in full strength accessories. I can't imagine healers on the whole wouldn't be happier about this.

[Alexika]

Tanks are there to tank. I don't see the need for strength other than to power your way through content quickly which isn't really necessary if you have good DPS.

I put out 700+ DPS while tanking and my healers have zero issues. It's good to clear content reliably and with ease.

[Zfz]

I put out 700+ DPS while tanking and my healers have zero issues. It's good to clear content reliably and with ease.

Just curious. What's your dps while tanking in full VIT?