VIT will scale with attack power, STR will scale but not as much

[Alahra]

Dervys done all the math and ran 4 different scenarios of how VIT/STR interacts with AP.

Either, Secondaries for tanks will stay the same, or they'll blow up.

You don't happen to have a link for this do you? I don't see it on his wordpress blog but I'm interested in seeing how it all breaks down.

[Galgarion]

I just hope they don't nerf WAR. I'd rather them buff the other two.

DK and Warrior are doing just fine Paladins just need some oomph to catch up.

[Syzygian]

Yup, there goes even the tiniest illusion of having any choice on what gear to wear.

Welcome to the world of every other job in this game: quality as a player based on skill and not gear. What a fucking tragedy.

[MiniTyra]

You don't happen to have a link for this do you? I don't see it on his wordpress blog but I'm interested in seeing how it all breaks down.

I know Dervy personally. You can say I basically am Dervy.

He doesn't want to publish anything in case people start uh... Taking what he says the wrong way. He himself doesn't know how SquareEnix will handle the changes until 3.2 hits, so he could give out the wrong impression with the numbers he has and mislead a lot of people.

The changes are a lot more volatile than many people are making them out to be, depending on how the new damage formula is constructed, how Strength and Vitality interact with AP and how they scale etc.

He did post this mock-up of very, very quick weight calculations however based on one of his scenarios: http://puu.sh/mPffH/425e4c495c.png

[Fourbestintoner]

By 4.0 every class will have just one stat.

[Alahra]

He doesn't want to publish anything in case people start uh... Taking what he says the wrong way. He himself doesn't know how SquareEnix will handle the changes until 3.2 hits, so he could give out the wrong impression with the numbers he has and mislead a lot of people.

But you're talking about it and potentially giving people false impressions anyway. Okay. >.>

[Sarynth]

25k HP WARs gonna be having some fun.

Can definitely agree. Large up pool and nice damage should open up the possibilities on want can be solo tanked/soloed. Saw you comment , and thought well here comes the warrior solos turn 13 videos lol.

[SpookyGhost]

Can definitely agree. Large up pool and nice damage should open up the possibilities on want can be solo tanked/soloed. Saw you comment , and thought well here comes the warrior solos turn 13 videos lol.

Doesn't work that way, Defiance increases HP - not VIT. They're also trying to avoid the possibility of solo tanking as heavily as possible now so we aren't going to see any T5/T9 solo tank shenanigans in the future most likely.

[lawlHT]

War fell cleave will be nerfed from 500 potency to 300. Wich will pretty much render war useless in the dps/ot station. Pld will go back to beeing the main tanks, drk will be the New off tank. And war will not be used in good gruops anymore.

Even if this came to pass wars still bring too much utility to ever fall behind the other two tanks when it comes to being picked for progression parties

[Zorafin]

What I'm seeing is a buff to vit tanks, and a nerf to str tanks. I'm not seeing this as a buff to tanks in general.
There was pretty much no reason to wear vit before this patch once you had a certain amount of defense. Now gearing for vit will give some additional bonus, at the expense of str not being as useful. I wish I had the numbers to know how much, but all that I know is that vit tanks will now do some more damage, and str tanks will now do less damage.
Maybe str tanks will still do more damage than vit tanks. But no matter what, I'll be weaker than I am this patch. I can only hope that the damage weight of vit is high enough that I won't miss str tanking all that much.