Strength Tanks and You.

[Krylo]

My question is, what exactly is the skills that is required in order to go for STR? Managing CDs, timing big hits... What else?

Basically the same as vit but with less margin of error and a greater reliance on your own self heals (which are also boosted by str) to relieve healer stress--if this is done right, healers need to do less for a str tank than a vit tank.

Although, on the margin of error, you can choose to have very little: Enough HP to survive one mitigated tank buster + auto attack crit (on the off chance that happens), or enough HP to have pretty similar to a vit build: Enough HP to survive one unmitigated tank buster + auto attack crit.

The thing is, though, that other than, maybe, Alexander Savage when the servers come back up (and maybe Rav ex? I've not been in there, been lazy), there's nothing that requires even a single piece of vit to reach enough hp to survive unmitigated tank busters + auto attack crit. Which is to say, vit doesn't really increase your margin of error very much, unless your healer is literally asleep.