Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
For players who equipped actual tank gear, they would've seen a marked increase on their damage. Their reasoning behind the patch actually made a lot of sense, because there were a LOT of tanks who were forgoing defense in favour of pure attack, which was upsetting over-stretched healers (myself included on occasion), and rendering actual tank equipment redundant.
That falls on the players hands not on the class. I'm sure you know this but VIT doesn't increase defense. A mix of STR/VIT was the best option for progression raiding. Having enough HP for tank busters but also being able to put out high damage is necessary for progression clears. Once you are over geared for the content you go full STR. You don't see Elysium's tanks in full VIT in savage pre 3.2 for a reason.

Now for tank gear being redundant, maybe if they did something with parry you would have an argument but "tank gear" was useless in pre 3.2. SE needs to stop being lazy and do something with parry.