Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
While I haven't encountered such comments either, myself, I have seen even sillier stuff (people criticizing fending gear with str melds as opposed to slaying gear with vit melds)...

...the whole fallacy of it all is that individuals out there think they know of some magical unicorn BiS for tanks when really the concept of a BiS for tanks is moronic, any player that takes tanking seriously should be ready and willing to swap gearsets at a moment's notice depending on the demands being made of them. I played a good bit of DPS in 2.x, I know what it means to have a REAL BiS. Tanks don't have it, nor should they. Its the job of a tank to be adaptable.
VIT gear being melded with STR is only a negative when said VIT gear has parry on it, otherwise they're pretty much identical. Only real difference is with STR accessories you have one extra slot for a secondary meld.

Tank BiS is nothing more than meeting ACC cap, meeting HP requirement for Tank Busters and avoiding anything with parry on it if at all possible. For WAR it includes hitting that magic 9-hit Zerk Skill Speed number as well.