Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[JackFross]

Everyone on this page seems to either be parroting or ignoring this post I made.

To reiterate: It's not about tanks pumping out more damage. It's not about telling people how to play. It's about discussing ways to maximize your role in the party composition. If you can do your job (survival and threat generation) just fine with less VIT, then dropping that VIT to increase your offensive output is a way to improve beyond where you are currently.

Please note, though. If one of the following is true:
1. You don't know the fight well enough yet to manage cooldowns optimally to keep yourself alive
2. You haven't mastered the dps rotation for your class, so running STR accessories gives you marginal gains for your suboptimal rotation
3. You hate how everyone always cries BUT DO MORE DAMAGE and you much prefer seeing those really really sexy health scores and shrugging off massive hits

You should probably not be running Strength gear. I ran a Sohm Al yesterday on white mage with a full strength DRK who was doing the same damage as a full VIT DRK could do. In that situation, you're forcing me to DPS less and causing an overall drop in DPS to the raid because you simply cannot use the bonus STR to its fullest.

Using STR gear isn't about "DO MORE DAMAGE" it's about optimizing the class. If you haven't done the base legwork to reach that optimization, taking this last step is not advisable.


(Though, important to note: You can still do so. It's fine. If you have more fun seeing bigger damage numbers, even if you're NOT optimizing damage output, and you aren't dying due to unskilled healers / inefficient cooldown usage, by all means GO FOR IT! Have fun, first and foremost! It's a video game, after all. C: )