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

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I'm personally getting the impression that people are working off the fact that a Full VIT Tank has more VIT than a full STR Tank has STR. For all jobs right now, 1 Damage Stat = 1 Attack Power. Therefore, making a simple switch to VIT being the Tank Damage Stat will cause their Attack Power will be even higher than even the most gung-ho of STR Tanks did before the change.

So there are thoughts that SE may lower VIT numbers in order to avoid Tanks dealing even more damage than they already are. Me? I think that VIT levels should stay the same. It's the amount of HP they were designed to have by wearing the gear specifically assigned to them. If dealing damage too close to dedicated DPS is a fear, all that need be done is change the relationship between Damage Stat and Attack Power for Tanks only. Instead of them being in a 1:1 ratio, they can be in a 1:0.8 ratio or something.

Tanks already have -20% - 35% damage reduction. If they are changing the stats they should remove the penalty associated to the stances. Otherwise that is a double nerf to damage.

Taking 1 and making it 0.8 is a huge nerf.

Tanks are nowhere near the damage of dedicated DPS, only bad or undergeared DPS are having this issue.

I don't see why "DPS" are doing so low when they have buffs that increase damage and their skills are a lot higher potency with higher base damage to boot. I think the main issue, is lazy+bad DPS.

Unlike DPS, Tanks cannot offord to be lazy or they lose aggression. So they always have to play their best, tanks that do not more or less lose aggro frequently because they try to play lazy or just spam their 1/2/3 aggro.

I think the issue mostly is people want to hide behind passive defense, spam 1-2-3 and watch netflix instead of playing the game.