What they mean by "change the damage calculations of tanks"?

[whiskeybravo]

While this does seem like the most elegant solution, it would break current balance, maybe not for PLD, but for WAR? A WAR in full VIT gear has like 30-35k HP, if VIT was also their main damage stat like STR is now, they would be at maximum damage and maximum HP pool.

This doesn't quite seem accurate, full vit 210 War should have around 21-22k HP out of defiance, and full vit war not doing 1200 dps.. Unless your talking about future item levels.

I don't think War having more HP would affect attack power. It would be based off vitality stat if anything, and all 3 tanks would have the same vit stat since they share gear (well, maybe not eso gear but it's all the same vit stat). If attack power was based off HP and not Vitalty, then something like thrill of battle and defiance would turn into dps cooldowns.

[Tyrial]

This doesn't quite seem accurate, full vit 210 War should have around 21-22k HP out of defiance, and full vit war not doing 1200 dps.. Unless your talking about future item levels.

I don't think War having more HP would affect attack power. It would be based off vitality stat if anything, and all 3 tanks would have the same vit stat since they share gear (well, maybe not eso gear but it's all the same vit stat). If attack power was based off HP and not Vitalty, then something like thrill of battle and defiance would turn into dps cooldowns.

Not once in his post does he mention HP being linked to attack power...he says if VIT became the damage modifier it would throw things out of balance if HP scaling was left as is.

[whiskeybravo]

Not once in his post does he mention HP being linked to attack power...he says if VIT became the damage modifier it would throw things out of balance if HP scaling was left as is.

Yea, I slightly misinterpreted his post, but, it seems to rest on the assumption that new vit would be greater than or equal to current str. And we don't know that for that sure. My point was more along the lines of, I don't see how there would be a huge disparity between war and the other tanks. 35k HP is a bit unreasonable, the only way to reach that is by using defiance and why would you use defiance if you're trying to dps. So take the high HP out of the equation, all the tanks would have the same Vitality stat and *likely* the same attack power.

More to Johnny's point, if vit = str then, it's true, there wouldn't be a need drag a dps along with half the survivability of a tank. So we can pretty much rest assured that whatever they come up with, new vit will not equal current str.