Four Ways to Die - why the Tank Meta feels "off".

[Kacho_Nacho]

I'm one of those old school brick wall tanks. Forgoing survivability for DPS just sounds wrong. Maybe that's what the cutting edge groups are doing but I plan on having a nice health pool and some great damage mitigation when I tank.

[Kabooa]

I'm one of those old school brick wall tanks. Forgoing survivability for DPS just sounds wrong. Maybe that's what the cutting edge groups are doing but I plan on having a nice health pool and some great damage mitigation when I tank.

That doesn't exclude having strength, or dumping parry.

Parry isn't amazing damage reduction, and you get 'amazing' health with i200+ leftside. i200+ right side is plain overkill in regular dungeons, and equates to maybe 1 extra hit in a relevant raid.

[Kacho_Nacho]

That doesn't exclude having strength, or dumping parry.

Parry isn't amazing damage reduction, and you get 'amazing' health with i200+ leftside. i200+ right side is plain overkill in regular dungeons, and equates to maybe 1 extra hit in a relevant raid.

Um... I don't know what you mean when you say i200 + left side or i200 + right side. *embarrassed* I'm a new arrival from WoW.

[Sapphidia]

Um... I don't know what you mean when you say i200 + left side or i200 + right side. *embarrassed* I'm a new arrival from WoW.

Left side and Right side refer to the slots on your paperdoll character sheet: Left Side is the armor parts - chest, head, belt, gloves, pants and boots. Right side is the five accessories.

As of now, tanks dont get much choice in their Left Side gear - they use the highest item level in each slot they can, as it all contains strength and vitality. When it comes to the Right Side slots though, they have a choice between full Strength with no vitality at all, pure vitality jewels, or some mix and match of both (or melded crafted accessories with a bit of str/vit on each). Basically the right side slots is where you get the chance to tweak how much strength or vitality you're taking into a fight, outside of the 35 stat points.

The i200+ means item level 200 or above (in this case, Esoterics Tome gear or anything from Alexander Savage). Basically the consensus is that if you have item level 200 or greater in all of your left side armor parts, this equates to so much vitality that it's just pointless to have any vitality on the accessories, so tanks will most likely use nearly full Slaying strength accs on the Right side at this gear level, in virtually all encounters ingame.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Left side and Right side refer to the slots on your paperdoll character sheet: Left Side is the armor parts - chest, head, belt, gloves, pants and boots. Right side is the five accessories.

As of now, tanks dont get much choice in their Left Side gear - they use the highest item level in each slot they can, as it all contains strength and vitality. When it comes to the Right Side slots though, they have a choice between full Strength with no vitality at all, pure vitality jewels, or some mix and match of both (or melded crafted accessories with a bit of str/vit on each). Basically the right side slots is where you get the chance to tweak how much strength or vitality you're taking into a fight, outside of the 35 stat points.

The i200+ means item level 200 or above (in this case, Esoterics Tome gear or anything from Alexander Savage). Basically the consensus is that if you have item level 200 or greater in all of your left side armor parts, this equates to so much vitality that it's just pointless to have any vitality on the accessories, so tanks will most likely use nearly full Slaying strength accs on the Right side at this gear level, in virtually all encounters ingame.

Thank you for the information, Saphidia!