Goodbye strength tanks. Let us never be forgotten.

[FinalWolf]

I find it ironic that there are alot of people that hated str tanks. We were revolutionary to our role. If it weren't for us VIT tanks may not have seen dps improvements and the situation for vit only tanks may not have been as noticeable by SE.

I think it's some people salty that WAR's were one shotting them in pvp

[Lethallin]

They are not going anywhere tho...

Depending on actual balance, probably you will see tanks still using some slaying accesories to make up for fending stuff that has parry on it. Any stat > parry.

That would be incredibly foolish. Even if STR and VIT have .5 AP each, VIT has lower weight to it on gear, and will therefore have more of it on them then a similar STR piece. AttackPower is so incredibly more powerful then DET/CRIT/Whatever, that even a few more AP is worth a lot of Det/Crit/etc.

Plus, you'd be giving up a lot of HP for an EXTREMELY marginal DPS increase, if they even gave a DPS increase in the first place, which would be really silly to do.

If the split is even more biased towards VIT then STR, it would certainly be a DPS loss to use STR, doesn't matter what the secondaries are.

[Kosmos992k]

I am Elon Salver, and i was a Str tank.

I will miss the joys of speeding up dungeons, carrying bad dps, and soloing bosses as warrior. Hope we will meet again someday, beloved pure str.

/salute

I don't have to forget them, they were never a 'thing' for me. All fending all the way baby.

Now, let's get down to the business of discussing DPS horror stories.

[Kuwagami]

Said it in game already, but a bit more ain't enough

Unless STR gives close to the amount of damage that VIT does, you won't see this because primary > any secondary.

They flat out said that slaying accessories would be trash for tanks, to the point where any mix of slaying/fending accessory (even just one slaying ring) would be a dps loss. Don't count on it

[Slappah]

Yeah yoshi said "tanks please focus on full vit"

I don't see us using any slaying gear anymore

[Ophie-Mio]

Yeah, goodbye STR tanks who barely had any HP and never enjoyed proper cooldown use.

And goodbye to the STR tanks who liked to harass me for rolling on my STR accessories whenever I was MNK or DRG like they were entitled to them.

And goodbye to the tank that I was who had to penta meld just to have two sets of tanking gear because tomestones are a pain and melding was better anyway.

[Ashkendor]

Said it in game already, but a bit more ain't enough

They flat out said that slaying accessories would be trash for tanks, to the point where any mix of slaying/fending accessory (even just one slaying ring) would be a dps loss. Don't count on it

Yeah. Hopefully they quit slapping Parry onto all of our damn equipment sometime soon. -.-

[Vele]

As a healer main and a reasonably good blm, brd and mch, I found competent str tanks to be better to work with, they had a much easier time holding hate and they helped kill things faster.

Bad tanks are gonna be bad no matter what accessories they're wearing. From those idiots who think they can tank entire dungeons in deliverance, to not using enough (or any) aoe when you have a ranged and/or caster, to standing in every single aoe.

[Kosmos992k]

Yeah. Hopefully they quit slapping Parry onto all of our damn equipment sometime soon. -.-

Or make it worth a damn.

[Iagainsti]

Yeah. Hopefully they quit slapping Parry onto all of our damn equipment sometime soon. -.-

On that note, Parry better not be on any accessories here on out.