Strength Tanks

[Sapphidia]

Just to clarify my thought on Paladin with Vit - in terms of single target DPS, yep, all tanks benefit identically from Strength. If you're talking about a single boss and purely using DPS as a judge, then yes, all tanks have parity.

However - DRK and WAR both have a LOT more self healing that's tied to their damage output (inner beast, extended Bloodbath, Souleater, DA Abyssal), whereas paladins purely have a crossclassed Bloodbath. Thus they're losing less survivability from doing less damage. In addition, their AOE tanking relies much more heavily on Flash which does -zero- damage, so in an AOE situation you wont really notice much difference between a STR and a VIT PLD, but you'd notice HUGE difference between the output of the DRK/WAR.

In a single target boss raid situation, there's not much difference (and yes, I'd also support the above that Paladin has such innate natural defenses that they dont need the Vit) but in terms of general content with trash like Expert Dungeons (which is where you actually SEE most of the Vit-loving paladins, as most of the raiders already understand the importance of strength) a Paladin is sort of okay with Vit for general performance, whereas STR on a DRK/WAR will have a much more marked effect on their self sustainability and group damage output.

Again, not arguing that paladins should go Vit, just stating that as the OP of this thread was mostly speaking from an Expert Dungeon / non-raiding perspective, that in those environments Paladin is the tank whose performance is least noticeably increased by being strength spec.