Live Letter 3.2 tank changes, vit effects tank attack

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Um...what

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/e4ff8bcd94f/

Oh look, a Fending accessory with Accuracy and Skill Speed.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/9eadbf2fa22/
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/31220e14e12/

Wait, now Acc and Crit!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/184f6f5ea73/
And finally, Acc/det


And that's just the i210. There were Crit/Det VIT accessories in previous tiers

Learn to read please. I said they have it, just not as much as Slaying and some fending accesories have Parry which replace some of the damage stats, thus, in the case scenario VIT and STR become equals, most tanks will still preffer slaying over fending and at best, they will mix them up.

[HorseBoots]

more HP = more to heal
With more max. HP a Cure heal less HP%

You can test it out how many Cure you need to heal up a Warrior at 50% HP and a Paladin at 50% HP.

...You mean about the same thanks to the heal bonus Warriors get while in Defiance?

[Fourbestintoner]

Say goodbye to tank stance because I will never use it again.

[shao32]

Fending won`t win in that situtation. Because slaying gear also grants skill speed, determination and critical, where Fending gives much lower skill speed and near no determination which is usually the stat replaced by parry. So if STR and VIT will both weight the same, at best, you will find tanks running a mix of slaying/fending accesories to max damage stats, like using just the fending acc without parry + slaying.

1 point of base stat give muche more vs a 1 point of secndary stat, and you talking like fending don have any det crit and skill speed, whe have 2 set to play and meaby because fending can have parry whe have a little less det or crit or something, i make 2 sets in ariyala

str DRK http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SBGL
vit DRK http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SJ0Q

as you can see whe have 75 point more or less of diference (i dont change the extra points so are in both in vit) and a not big dierence betwen secondaries stats, so 75 points of vit in this actual pacth, more high in 3.2 are mandatory.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Except with STR and VIT there was choice. Tank would slot as much STR as they could, but would swap in VIT to survive tank busters etc while in progression. Main tank in my raid consistently was swapping str/vit accessories. He wouldn't do this if one was better 100% of the time.

You could say choice is an illusion in all aspects of life, but I doubt you would promote the idea of removing all choice in every day behaviour.

Anyway, Yoshi clearly is against choice, and that's too bad because it makes this game dreadfully stale.

Except swapping to VIT wasn't optimal. You could survive any tank buster with proper cooldown usage in all slayer gear, which was the crux of the issue. You simply didn't need fending gear for any endgame content. This also led to an increasing rate of newer tanks attempting to level in all STR when they weren't ready to manage the necessary cooldowns.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

1 point of base stat give muche more vs a 1 point of secndary stat, and you talking like fending don have any det crit and skill speed, whe have 2 set to play and meaby because fending can have parry whe have a little less det or crit or something, i make 2 sets in ariyala

str DRK http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SBGL
vit DRK http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SJ0Q

as you can see whe have 75 point more or less of diference (i dont change the extra points so are in both in vit) and a not big dierence betwen secondaries stats, so 75 points of vit in this actual pacth, more high in 3.2 are mandatory.

Slaying still has the upper hand if VIT and STR are equals. Unless parry will also increase DPS now, magically.

[Zumi]

Slaying still has the upper hand if VIT and STR are equals. Unless parry will also increase DPS now, magically.

There are fending acc with no parry.

[Kaurie]

You could survive any tank buster with proper cooldown usage in all slayer gear, which was the crux of the issue. You simply didn't need fending gear for any endgame content.

We may be talking about different stages of progression.

When you go to a grocery store, and you see two block of cheese and one of those is $1 per 100 grams and the other 86 cents per 100 grams, there is a clear optimal choice. That said, would you want to advocate that the grocery store remove the more expensive item, because it's just an illusion of choice? No, people like having choices, and sometimes choices are made based on more than 1 thing.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

There are fending acc with no parry.

Fending won`t win in that situtation. Because slaying gear also grants skill speed, determination and critical, where Fending gives much lower skill speed and near no determination which is usually the stat replaced by parry. So if STR and VIT will both weight the same, at best, you will find tanks running a mix of slaying/fending accesories to max damage stats, like using just the fending acc without parry + slaying.

Learn to read please. I said they have it, just not as much as Slaying and some fending accesories have Parry which replace some of the damage stats, thus, in the case scenario VIT and STR become equals, most tanks will still preffer slaying over fending and at best, they will mix them up.

Im i speaking chinese or something?

[Zumi]

Im i speaking chinese or something?

Because you are wrong they have the same amount of secondary stats as slaying.