Crafted accessories are an issue.

[Kidala]

I wear full Slaying in AS1 - and 3 Slaying 2 Fending in AS2/AS3 my pentamelds just sit in my inventory now.

Regardless of what people are using for their accessories, the pentamelds have much higher primary stat totals: 60 primary per pentamelded i150 and 47 or 49 primary for i210. Take into account, for tanks, primary stats are at a 1:0.2-0.25 ratio to secondary stats, it's still ridiculous, and this is just for i150. When i180(we're guessing) come out, those totals will jump to 72 primary(if we follow current i180 primary stats on accessories,) while the 210 gear will still be at 47 or 49 depending on which you use. We won't see higher ilevel raid accessories until 3.2, and following these trends, they'll be somewhere around 56(slaying) and 60(fending). This is less of a gap, but it's still a problem, considering the crafted accessories are currently 60 ilevel below the best raid accessories

[Dhex]

Regardless of what people are using for their accessories, the pentamelds have much higher primary stat totals: 60 primary per pentamelded i150 and 47 or 49 primary for i210. Take into account, for tanks, primary stats are at a 1:0.2-0.25 ratio to secondary stats, it's still ridiculous, and this is just for i150. When i180(we're guessing) come out, those totals will jump to 72 primary(if we follow current i180 primary stats on accessories,) while the 210 gear will still be at 47 or 49 depending on which you use. We won't see higher ilevel raid accessories until 3.2, and following these trends, they'll be somewhere around 56(slaying) and 60(fending). This is less of a gap, but it's still a problem, considering the crafted accessories are currently 60 ilevel below the best raid accessories

Excess Vitality is excess Vitality. Sure you lose Vitality going from Penta-melds to Slaying but if you don't need more HP then why wear melds?

[Kidala]

Excess Vitality is excess Vitality. Sure you lose Vitality going from Penta-melds to Slaying but if you don't need more HP then why wear melds?

So we come back to the point of vitality not being worth it. A tank should not feel crippled by wearing fending accessories. They were designed to be used by tanks. They are not being used by tanks, because the design right now is flawed, which allows these pentamelds to shine until tanks feel they have enough 210 gear to use slaying.