Strength Tanks and You.

[Freyyy]

But the thing is: you really don't know anything since you only see the story from one side. A majority of career tanks do not play healers and have never healed savage content in i110 gear or T13 with a DRG and no MNK pre-DRG defensive buffs in i110 gear. You will never understand these intricacies and that there is a time and place for everything.

I'll answer that because you quoted me. I'm a career tank, and that's true that I haven't healed "hardcore" content (tho SCH was one of my fav jobs to play in 2.0 after the tanks and the MNK but I have yet to get it to 60). I do understand that there is a time and place for everything, as I stated in my previous posts, I was using melded accessories in 2.0 and ATM I have both sets of VIT and STR accessories and mix and match depending on the need. I said I found out that for instance, 15k HP was plenty enough to main tank everything and that we'll see for savage mode tomorrow. I did progression raiding and I know that when we still not outgear content we tanks have to work on having a safe HP pool in priority, then put the rest on STR. With my co-PLD we had the goal to be the 5th DPS of the party which we succeeded really well as our combined DPS was 1.5 times a DPS's DPS. I've seen my mates using melded accessories even on healers and DPS to get enough VIT to survive T13, and we had a DRG and no MNK either.

With that said, progression raiding was not the first point in this thread. I briefly mentionned it yeah, but the original point here was STR tanks in 4 man dungeons, and people started to complain about them being STR-specced and saying that was bad and that we were only here to tank and wear full VIT gear. The fact is that these people just got a bad tank which would have been the same in VIT gear, but they don't want to accept this fact and keep saying that's because of STR gear which is completely stupid. I just entered the discussion to try to make them understand that 4 man dungeons do not need VIT builds at all to be properly tanked and to allow the healer to DPS. A good tank with proper cooldown usage can do everything a full VIT tank can do with full STR gear on, but better because he also has better DPS. That's what people can't understand and keep saying stupid things like "no you STR tanks are a pain to heal" blablabla. And that's why I stopped to argue and grabbed my popcorn until now just to answer you.

Now I'm gonna grab my popcorn again and see how many pages of stupidity we can get.