"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[Lethallin]

My greatest fear with this change is stated above: That my Slaying jewelry will become useless and I'll lose a notable amount of ilvls by having to use my Fending accessories, that I've not really been keeping up on.

Though, I feel as if it won't be such a big change. They'll probably nerf War DPS a bit, and bump up DRK a bit, and maybe PLD a notable amount. I enjoy my role as "Off-DPS" that my static lovingly calls me, but I do feel that I can DPS a bit too much while still being able to turn on tank-mode and tank things just fine.

[Jpec07]

My greatest fear with this change is stated above: That my Slaying jewelry will become useless and I'll lose a notable amount of ilvls by having to use my Fending accessories, that I've not really been keeping up on.

Well here's the thing: they're waiting for 3.2, which is the "next tier," so to speak. Item levels will probably go to 210-230 for new content, so it's gear that you're going to be replacing anyway. Nothing is going to affect the current "progression" raiding, and you'll likely be replacing/matching that gear with new dungeon greens anyway.

That said, I'm still not convinced they're going to be switching VIT for STR as the tanks' main source of attack power. People say it's simple, but that seems incredibly too drastic, especially when considering the entire rest of the game they'd need to retool to match (specifically looking at leveling gear and content).

[Kosmos992k]

That said, I'm still not convinced they're going to be switching VIT for STR as the tanks' main source of attack power. People say it's simple, but that seems incredibly too drastic, especially when considering the entire rest of the game they'd need to retool to match (specifically looking at leveling gear and content).

Would it not be easier for them to increased the impact of Determination for Tanks, reduce the impact of STR, and add a relationship between DET and VIT so higher VIT leads to higher DET. Determination could also be factored into block and parry strength, allowing VIT to influence these things (gosh! a tank's VIT helping mitigation...revolutionary at least to SE). Giving Tanks a reason to stack DET and VIT on their gear as well as STR. Nothing will fix Parry, unless it's completely reworked. In some ways I feel that they should take every piece of gear with Parry on it, and split the Parry score 50/50 with Determination. Not drop Parry entirely, but if it's not going to be a larger factor, then allow some of the stat budget on items to weigh against Determination.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

Well here's the thing: they're waiting for 3.2, which is the "next tier," so to speak. Item levels will probably go to 210-230 for new content, so it's gear that you're going to be replacing anyway. Nothing is going to affect the current "progression" raiding, and you'll likely be replacing/matching that gear with new dungeon greens anyway.

That said, I'm still not convinced they're going to be switching VIT for STR as the tanks' main source of attack power. People say it's simple, but that seems incredibly too drastic, especially when considering the entire rest of the game they'd need to retool to match (specifically looking at leveling gear and content).

Except that the new dungeons won't be dropping the 220? gear, they will likely drop 195-200 gear in similar fashion to the EX dungeons presently. The new 220 gear will be from tomes and raid, and as you should upgrade your left side gear first, the right side gear will probably still be in play for a little while atleast.

It takes just over 3 weeks of capping ESO to get 4 fending accessories, now would be the time to save for them (unless you prefer to mad dash for ESO because it will no longer be the 450 capped tome). I grabbed mine up on greed rolls from A1S. Discussed with the group that as things may change at 3.2, I was going to roll greed only with those who main other classes but also have a 60 tank. [i felt gross and needed to wash up after]

Of course this throws a wrench in those of us gearing other classes, and it there is the STRONG possiblity this is much ado about nothing. I just suggest that as a tank, be prepared in the event that STR is completely removed from our damage equation.