Quote Originally Posted by Cynric View Post
I honestly can't tell whether they want us to wear vit or strength anymore. The DPS checks are too heavy for full fending to make a similar contribution to full slaying.
Oh, in terms of the encounter balance, yes, they greatly encouraged Slaying/Pentamelds, especially for progression, but I don't think that was really intent. If I had to guess, they assumed, in their internal testing, full Fending, and intended for Savage to be cleared at much higher item levels. If they really intended for tanks to wear Slaying accessories, they would have given them Need privileges on them, and given that we were at an expansion breakpoint, this would have been the perfect time for them to do so.

I'm relatively sure the current metagame is an unintended one, brought about by the combination of harsh DPS checks and not-harsh-enough tank busters.