Tank Balance

[Reynhart]

So, what's the problem with Tanks? It's that Vitality, their main stat, is treated the same way for them as it is for everyone else: once you can survive the fight, stop worrying about it. It is the only main stat that becomes less useful at certain thresholds.

Very interesting point.
It could be interesting to find an another effect that VIT could offer to counter this.

I think the problem is twofold :
- Vitality only gives HP
- Healing spells are too strong

Why is "more HP" a problem ? Because, unless you're at max HP, you actually don't care what your max HP is. If you have only 1000 HP left, one 1000 hit will kill you, wether you have 2000 or 25000 max HP
As for healing spells, the problem is that healers don't care about auto-attacks. They can keep you alive from auto-attacks for...well, forever, in fact. If their wasn't any tankbusters, tanks would be invincible.

So, what can be changed :
1) Vitality should add a constant mitigation. That way, if you have 1000 HP left, a 1000 hit (before mitigation) will not have the same effect depending on your vitality.
2) Healing spell's potencies should adjusted so that auto-attacks are a real thing, not a minor annoyance. That way, adding vitality would still be useful since its much more difficult to mitigate auto-attacks in the long run.

After that, it can be interesting to decide if Vitality would only be physical mitigation, and Mind for magical mitigation (And Dark Mind could be a swap between the two like Cleric Stance).
Or vitality could enhance heals received, to the same effect, having a constant effect on your mitigation/recovery.

As a sidenote, Piety is the same...enough MP to manage the fight, then the rest is useless...but nobody actually focuses on Piety, so, who cares