Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

[Caelum_Dragguell]

Strength tanking was the result of the current raid meta of the time. Gordias had such strict DPS checks that in order to accomplish them at lower Ilv's Strength tanking was an absolute necessity for progression. Even Healers had to participate in DPS in order to get through them. This only occurred because the Dev team heard that the raid scene wanted something significantly harder than Final Coil, and when they heard "Harder raid" they thought that making DPS checks rigorous was the option. If you participated in raid content then you'd understand where that meta came from. In order to do it well one had to actually know how to perform that playstyle correctly. Many did not thus Vitality tanking would have been a better option.

also since when did this thread become specifically about stats, that's only one part of the problem, I just want more meaningful content as a whole that will keep me occupied for more than one week after a patch releases. Let me reiterate, in no way would I want to be taking anything away from anyone. All I keep hearing is, "oh but if you change this the world will end" or "oh but adding new content on top of what we have is bad" or "well changing the formula we've had for the past 4 years which is boring a lot of players is a terrible idea". Can we take a moment and just MAYBE... MAYBE consider that the game is on the BRINK of being something AMAZING but it just doesn't have that final amount of depth needed to make it reach that point? (Someone stated they felt this way too previously)

[SDaemon]

Strength tanking was the result of the current raid meta of the time.

XIV's DPS meta is a result of the battle system and how battles play out in regards to outgoing damage. Tanks and Healers have always been expected to contribute to DPS. Gordias just escalated it to new heights. The only reason the STR Tank meta has subsided is because STR and VIT are more in line with each other in regards to tank DPS. Though some tanks still meld for STR where applicable.