Quote Originally Posted by Eidolon View Post
Yea, my concern is...

Right now, let's say that STR is 1, and VIT is 0. VIT is 0 because VIT has 0 effect on your Damage. STR affects it by 1 Per 1 (arbitrary number for example alone.)

So, "The effect of Strength on physical attack ptoency will be reduced"

What this can mean is:

STr becomes .5, instead of 1.

"Making it so vitality affects the potency of physical attacks

VIT Becomes .5, instead of 0.

What I want to know is like, raw nubmers I guess. I doubt they'll make STR=0 in this scenario, because that'd make half the stats on our gear useless.
I made a couple of charts to take a look at this yesterday.

This first chart shows how tank damage would change if:
  1. A full i210 tank switches from full STR (Slaying accessories and STR bonus points) in 3.1 to full VIT (Fending accessories and VIT bonus points) in 3.2, and
  2. The only thing that SE changes for tank damage is the weights of VIT (currently 0.0) and STR (currently 1.0).



The red region indicates that tank damage would be higher than a full STR tank today. I think it’s safe to say that’s not going to happen.

The orange region indicates that tank damage would be lower than a full STR tank today, but higher than a full VIT tank today. I suspect this is also unlikely.

The yellow region indicates that tank damage would be within 75% of a full VIT tank today. Given that tank damage is probably closer to DPS damage than it should be and that SE have indicated they’re increasing the enmity modifiers for tanks (which, given they’re fine where they are now, implies tank damage will decrease), this seems like a likely proposition.

The white region indicates that tank damage would be below 75% of a full VIT tank today. This seems very unlikely, given how much tanks would then struggle in any kind of solo content.

This second chart removes the two least probable regions indicated above and looks at how the different accessories that are currently available (i210 STR, i210 VIT, i150 penta-melded) would stack up at each weighting:



The red region this time indicates that i210 Slaying accessories would remain the best accessories for increasing tank damage. Given that this is what SE are trying to avoid, we can probably safely discount this region.

The white region this time indicates that i150 penta-melded accessories would become the best accessories for increasing tank damage. Although that’s somewhat of a temporary problem, given that future crafted accessories will not accept primary stats for overmelding, it’s not insignificant, since most people wait until they’ve finished their left-side upgrades before working on accessories, so with poor luck it could be some time before a tank replaces their accessories.

The yellow region this time indicates that i210 Fending accessories would become the best accessories for increasing tank damage. This seems like the most favorable outcome, since it encourages tanks to wear Fending in all situations.

With all that in mind, I’d expect to see us ending up with somewhere in the lower left of that yellow area on the second chart.