Goodbye strength tanks. Let us never be forgotten.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well this is more entertaining than the healer PDS threads that pop up once a month.

[Tchaktuli]

I never understood why the game designers originally had tank damage coming off of strength in the first place. Seemed like a miss back in the design phase that is now being rectified. After all we have dex-base, int-based and str-based damage on other classes so why did it take so long to make tanks Vit-based for their damage?

As it is while running as my healer (AST) or as my DPS (DRG) I have never had a problem with either tank build as long as they were holding threat and using abilities to help keep themselves alive. The ONLY ones that make me cry are the tanks that pull big and then lay it all on the healer without using those awesome mitigating abilities their class/job gave them. Or as a DPS when I am not overgeared to the tank and I have to cut my rotation back to keep from pulling aggro (On the mob they have been concentrating on).

But yes, good bye STR tanks, your time has come to an end but I know the good players will still be good and hopefully in my groups. ^_^

[Averax]

Good riddance, i say.

I still have nightmares from the first couple weeks of HW, with all the fresh baby DRKs trying their hardest to be a dps.

The good STR tanks shall be missed, but i never encountered enough of them to want things to stay the way they are.

[Awful]

Woohoo now I can actually need on gear that I need! Who woulda thunk it?

[Ossom]

Man some of you guys are gonna be in for a rude awakening tomorrow when...

Nothing has changed. Tanks will have a bit more HP but thats it, if anything I wouldn't be surprised to see some Tanks still rocking full strength because they didn't read the patch notes and are very confrontational in DF.

[Yasuhiro]

Warrior still going to be best tank DPS though, right?

Gonna miss them asking if anyone saw how much their fell cleave did if not.

[Jamillion]

Tomorrow is going to be hilarious when all these salty healers realize bad tanks aren't magically good in the morning.

[Averax]

Tomorrow is going to be hilarious when all these salty healers realize bad tanks aren't magically good in the morning.

They won't be any better, but at least they'll be able to take more than 3 hits of un-mitigated damage before dying.

[RyuRoots]

Tomorrow is going to be hilarious when all these salty healers realize bad tanks aren't magically good in the morning.

Except...no one is expecting them to be? It changes the meta to something that isn't completely idiotic, which is more what we're happy about.

[CaedemSanguis]

This is the last full str day. Tomorrow im a new person, a new tank, a full vit tank with 21k hp.