Strength Tanks

[Sapphidia]

Always hard to know how to respond to such trollbait threads.

The original post is ignorant, uninformed, 100% incorrect and bears no regard for any kind of nuance of gearing. The original -poster- is either a horrendous player that has no understanding of the way stats work in the game, or is an obvious troll trying to create a 400 page rant at which other trolls provoke the more experienced tanks who try to help.

The problem is when new players go to the tank forum and see a thread like this at the top of the page, and thus see this ranting post and assume that it's correct. It's on a forum, it's got lots of replies, it has to be correct surely. Unfortunately the only way to correct the post is to reply to the thread... which keeps the circle going. Same thing happens regularly in Balmung /shout in Idyllshire where certain uninformed tank trolls try to convince the playerbase that full vit is the only way to go and you're a failure if you even think about turning on sword oath.

Balancing a desire to not fan trollish flames vs a real desire to HELP the community and make newer tanks better at their job is not an easy task when people like OP post threads like this.

[Grant_Wilshire]

The problem is when new players go to the tank forum and see a thread like this at the top of the page, and thus see this ranting post and assume that it's correct. It's on a forum, it's got lots of replies, it has to be correct surely. Unfortunately the only way to correct the post is to reply to the thread... which keeps the circle going. Same thing happens regularly in Balmung /shout in Idyllshire where certain uninformed tank trolls try to convince the playerbase that full vit is the only way to go and you're a failure if you even think about turning on sword oath.

Balancing a desire to not fan trollish flames vs a real desire to HELP the community and make newer tanks better at their job is not an easy task when people like OP post threads like this.

All of these rant threads about Tanks really makes me scared of what I have signed on for.

[Malicewolf]

All of these rant threads about Tanks really makes me scared of what I have signed on for.

Don't worry little one. You'll be fine, just keep learning Most will be helpful to you, a few will be obnoxious. Just be sure not to confuse someone giving advice as them being condescending (sometimes they are, but most of the time they are just honestly trying to help you improve).

As for those who are saying what's the big deal about optimization, its simple. People don't like wasting their time. Now, why they say these things in regular dungeons or even hard trials, I don't see the point either. But in extreme trials and raids, I can understand a bit. They usually waited a while for queue times and they most likely don't want to sit through the same content for 3+ hours waiting for a good team because people keep failing due to not being able to meet DPS checks. Now, understanding mechanics will always be more optimal than anyone who doesn't know what their doing. For instance, knowing HOW to do RavanaEx as a minimum ilvl will be much better than someone full eso geared without a clue. Some people obviously take things too far into the extreme though.

[kensatsu]

wait just one month and wait the stat change, seriously i never say to somebody he have to gear vit or str.
i can't understand why players expect every tanks to be geared in str, also everyone don't use tank as main job. so just do as you wish (i said this many times XD)