Fending Accessories

[Zarzak]

I haven't seen a reason why fending should be mandated. .

Because we are tanks? Same reason any other piece of fending gear is mandated?

[Ralvenom]

Because we are tanks? Same reason any other piece of fending gear is mandated?

So, because we're tanks, we should be FORCED to take lower strength gear over moderate strength gear? I'd hate to be in your raid group...

[Yorumi]

So, because we're tanks, we should be FORCED to take lower strength gear over moderate strength gear? I'd hate to be in your raid group...

Why are mages forced to use casting accessories, healers forced to use healing, melee dps forced to use slaying. The idea that a tank should want to gear in tank stats is not an idea born of lunacy.

[Rbstr]

Because we are tanks? Same reason any other piece of fending gear is mandated?

Fending left-side is defined by the defense it gives compared to others (and the availability of parry as a secondary sometimes, I guess...). The stats are otherwise identical to any other melee gear.
There's a reason for that defense: So attacks don't threaten tanks as much as they do the squishies. It enforces the idea you need a tank.

That part is taken care of...so why do we need to bother with the accessories and eliminate one of the only places you really have agency in a job "build"?
If you add a meaningful amount of defense to the fending accs you open all sorts of worm-cans. You have to rebalance boss damage to make the defense desirable plus you have the availability of large amounts of defense to whatever class unless you restrict accessories by job.
It's not like they're going to forget to balance around the now tankier tanks. High-end raiding will be the same level of difficult.

Alternatively you could just make Fending the best of both worlds and give it vit and str. Or just Str and balance fights against that.
But that's just kind of boring.

[Phoenicia]

Because we are tanks? Same reason any other piece of fending gear is mandated?

Ugh... Rbstr is saying that they have not seen any reason for fending to be mandated. That's a perfect present tense. And I agree with him/her there. There has not been a reason to mandate fending gear as the only option for tanks. Logic would dictate so, but as a fact, it isn't so.

I do not have much to add to what has been already said in this topic. But I'll repeat the gist of it: You don't need fending accessories. STR accessories are a better option. Pentamelds are the best option currently available.

[Zarzak]

STR accessories are a better option. Pentamelds are the best option currently available.

This is the whole point of the thread. This SHOULD NOT be the case. The fending jewelry is supposed to be ideal for tanks. It is not. They need to fix this.

[Ralvenom]

This is the whole point of the thread. This SHOULD NOT be the case. The fending jewelry is supposed to be ideal for tanks. It is not. They need to fix this.

It is the BEST option for a vitality build. Some of us prefer to have more strength though.

[Yorumi]

It is the BEST option for a vitality build. Some of us prefer to have more strength though.

That's like saying casting accessories are the best option for an int build on a monk.

[Ralvenom]

That's like saying casting accessories are the best option for an int build on a monk.

Not really. It's more an acknowledgement of the fact that people gravitate towards certain things.

[Yorumi]

Not really. It's more an acknowledgement of the fact that people gravitate towards certain things.

Your response to someone saying it's bad that tanks don't use tank gear is to say vit get is the best for stacking a useless stat. So it's just like saying casting accessories are great for an int build on monk. Hey some people just gravitate toward strength, no idea why casting is great for that int build.