Strength Tanks and You.

[Izsha]

A fast kill more due to the fact that the healers are dpsing and they are single tanking the fight. Most pug Ravana ex people double tank and the healers don't dps.

Yeah I love single tanking with a drk and war. /facepalm. Check again prz.

thats exactly the point why this thread got to 37 pages
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people i play with want me actually to use vit gear as tank , because its actually my role :P

Bold is why it's gone 37 pages. "The people i play with want me to use vit gear" is a perfectly lovely reason to use vit (or str). It's the stricken part that has perpetuated this and other threads so far. Your friends want you to wear vit so you wear vut. Good for you. That doesn't make str "wrong". It is not a tanks role to stack HP. Their role is to mitigate party damage. This is done by maintaining monsters attention and mitigation the damage directed at them. A tanks "job" isn't to have ad much HP as possible. Keep threat, mitigate damage is the purpose of a tank.

That's like saying a whm "role" is to have as much mp as possible. Mp doesn't make a healer heal harder just as hp doesn't mitigate damage or generate threat.

[Khemorex]

Yeah I love single tanking with a drk and war. /facepalm. Check again prz.




Bold is why it's gone 37 pages. "The people i play with want me to use vit gear" is a perfectly lovely reason to use vit (or str). It's the stricken part that has perpetuated this and other threads so far. Your friends want you to wear vit so you wear vut. Good for you. That doesn't make str "wrong". It is not a tanks role to stack HP. Their role is to mitigate party damage. This is done by maintaining monsters attention and mitigation the damage directed at them. A tanks "job" isn't to have ad much HP as possible. Keep threat, mitigate damage is the purpose of a tank.

That's like saying a whm "role" is to have as much mp as possible. Mp doesn't make a healer heal harder just as hp doesn't mitigate damage or generate threat.

thats ok for ur group , not for others XD

[Izsha]

thats ok for ur group , not for others XD

That's my point. You are taking your group and saying everyone must be like you, but how is that a better argument than "my group wants str tanks so everyone should be like me"? You can't say that you are right because it's what you do then say others are wrong for what they do. It's hypocrisy. You're group PREFERS vit tanks. That doesn't make str tanks wrong. Preference isn't right or wrong.

These threads continue because people are propogating rightness and wrongness to an aspect of the game where that is determined by skill and preference. If you and your group are skilled enough you can wear more str, and even prefer it. There's nothing wrong with that. Lucrezia with str tanks doesn't somehow devalue vit tanks everywhere. They can both coexist. Everyone doesn't have to be like 'your group'. They aren't your group.

[Khemorex]

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this thread has splitted in to 2 directions actually.

1 : the ones that trying to prove str tanks are the only way to go and anything else is just bullshit and not worth to play :P

with stuff like posting parses and math .

and stuff like :

*being an hinderence to your group using vit*
*ur farming slower then me* huhu *i farm it 4 min faster then you my dingding is bigger*

2 : then thers str tanks wich actually are only saying its ok to play str nothign wrong with it if ur group can keep up with it.

[Eye_Gore]

this thread has splitted in to 2 directions actually.

Well, then there is only one thing left to do. 9 rounds bare knuckle boxing, its the only way.

[Izsha]

this thread has splitted in to 2 directions actually.

1 : the ones that trying to prove str tanks are the only way to go and anything else is just bullshit and not worth to play :P

with stuff like posting parses and math .

and stuff like :

*being an hinderence to your group using vit*
*ur farming slower then me* huhu *i farm it 4 min faster then you my dingding is bigger*

2 : then thers str tanks wich actually are only saying its ok to play str nothign wrong with it if ur group can keep up with it.

You conveniently forgot the vit heros screaming str tanks aren't tanks. Vit is life. Life is tank. Tank is vit. Repent ye str heathens and accept the one true stat into your heart as is your role!

Str or die crowd: relax. We know it's the optimal way to play, but it also has a minimum group skill threshold many groups don't have. It's great to aspire to, but don't force it. Not everyone can handle the power (of str).

Vit or die crowd: quit with your 1 dimensional view of tanking. It's narrowminded and ignorant. There is no holy book of tank the decrees all shall wear vit because "it's tank gear and tank is the name of your role".

Reasonable human beings in the middle that realize group dynamics and skill determine how to gear: Thank you. You get it.