Live Letter 3.2 tank changes, vit effects tank attack

[Alahra]

I don't recall them saying that about the tank changes, but them saying it was unfair that tanks were basically *forced* to use pentas because of the dual stat nature of tanking.

Regardless of the exact wording, their general intent is the same, so why would they balance around something they didn't want to force people to do? If they didn't want to force people to use Pentamelds, why would they have assumed the usage of Pentamelds in testing?

As for the drops, if you did BCoB progression, you'd remember there were *two* sets of slaying accessories; Maiming and Striking (same for Darklight gear actually. (...) They fixed that in 2.1, with Slaying accessories dropping from the EX Primals, and never using separate accessories again.

I do remember, and their fixing of that is precisely why I don't think they would have assumed tanks were using Slaying accessories in Alexander. Fending accessories had never been so reviled as they have been post-3.0, though (as you mentioned earlier, Fending was much more useful throughout Coil—Slaying used to be something you did after you geared up, not something you did during progression), so they probably didn't see the necessity to fix the tank accessory conundrum until more recently.

It's also always been rather clear that the developers place far less emphasis on secondary stats than we do as a community, so they probably did their testing in BCOB assuming that DRGs and MNKs were using their respective Maiming and Striking sets for accessories. In their eyes, the secondaries are equal in value (and honestly back then, the difference between Maiming right side and Striking right side would have been small enough to have had no appreciable effect on encounter balance).