Tank Balance

[Phoenicia]

In FFXI, VIT was a physical mitigation on top of adding Defense. (And MND, a magical mitigation)

Since Defense is a passive constant mitigation in FFXIV, VIT adding defense would have the same effect, yes.

But I really think the focus should move a little towards mitigating auto-attacks, since they basically "don't matter" for now.

Yeah, but if both our mitigation AND damage scaled from our main stat, like how healing and damage scales for healers, then tanks would be more inclined to equip VIT gear. Even if the added benefit is smaller than pure STR accessories.

I think also part of the problem is at the start in 2.xx, SE had tanks getting "at least something" from too many stats. We had STR for damage and block/parry values. We had DEX affecting rates. But they were at dismally low rates that they didn't matter. And lack of gear variety made it even worse. SE made a good "choice" by removing that dependency form those stats.