Strength Tanks

[fm_fenrir]

Lately, I've this a lot on PLD but on a lot of tanks in general.

I think a lot of PLDs are taking the "you do the worst tank DPS" thing as a challenge, so they're the most likely to be trying to prove that statement wrong. Personally, I've always stacked STR because I'm too lazy to build two separate sets of accessories for four jobs, and never really had a problem with being too soft to heal.

[SwordCoheir]

I think a lot of PLDs are taking the "you do the worst tank DPS" thing as a challenge, so they're the most likely to be trying to prove that statement wrong. Personally, I've always stacked STR because I'm too lazy to build two separate sets of accessories for four jobs, and never really had a problem with being too soft to heal.

Quite frankly when the entirety of enmity mechanics is based purely on attack power and damage, and PLD's not only have the lowest damage of any class even when optimized for DPS, but the lowest hate modifiers of any tank, yeah there are just some hurdles that can't be avoided. Now if they actually put some value into VIT outside of just meeting a tankbuster threshold yeah sure, but when the devs build the game around a DPS meta, people can cry and moan all they want about VIT it just doesn't serve any real application beyond an hp barrier.