Can square enix just put Str and Vit on fending gear?

[SchalaZeal]

Same goes for that DRG just going above 1150. DRG just wrecks shit, in a 1min30 dummy fight like Curator, my statics DRG is still above 1600.

Wouldn't that Dragoon still be able to clear A3S while doing a meaningful share of dps, with 1600 being top-of-the-world-firsters able-to-do-it-in-185 compared to others doing it in i205?

I doubt you need to be in the top 0.1% of dpsers to pass dps checks, I would think people mess up mechanics (and then die) more than dps rotations at this point. But at i185, most people in Savage didn't have the gear, or skill to compensate for the gear.

Like the day I see a BLM do 3000 dps on anything except the small pull after the Minotaur (where I do 2700 by using mainly Blizzard II on SMN), is the day I meet a unicorn in real life.

It's like in the time of first coil, I had a semi static (people didn't always show up, had to pug some) for T1-4. And some top tier groups cleared T4 with so much ease that I only had after we got that echo buff in 2.2. But we still did clear T4 in 2.0 and 2.1, just with difficulty and lots of wipes.

I imagine it's similar to your top-of-the-charts dps in your static, vs other savage statics that don't do leader boards, but can still eventually clear A3S (or are on their way to do so).