Quote Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang View Post
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.