With the launch of Stormblood

[YokeM]

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You see...it`s not that I want to punish DPS player for getting two new jobs. It`s more like I rarely want to tank for people I don`t know. Tanking requires alot of attention and while your friends are playfully comparing their dps to each other, you are busy holding hate and having a good overview over the battle. This became even more of an issue after the 3.2 tank nerfs, which was SE way of telling people: A tank should tank, nothing else. Although I realize that the STR tank meta got a little bit out of hand.

[Reynhart]

This became even more of an issue after the 3.2 tank nerfs, which was SE way of telling people: A tank should tank, nothing else.

No, it wasn't. It was a way of saying "tanks should not have to pay millions of gils for pentamelded accessories when other jobs don't".
The same weight for STR and VIT was made so that STR is never the best choice (Unless extreme bad itemization for secondary stats) and the 0.45 weight was made to ensure that tanks would never end with higher attack power than DPS, since VIT values increase faster than STR values on armor.

[Shurrikhan]

No, it wasn't. It was a way of saying "tanks should not have to pay millions of gils for pentamelded accessories when other jobs don't".
The same weight for STR and VIT was made so that STR is never the best choice (Unless extreme bad itemization for secondary stats) and the 0.45 weight was made to ensure that tanks would never end with higher attack power than DPS, since VIT values increase faster than STR values on armor.

This. In all fairness though, the far more obvious solution to that was to make all but Piety share main stat caps, so that tanks were no longer more advantaged by or dependent on materia than everyone else, period.

[YokeM]

and the 0.45 weight was made to ensure that tanks would never end with higher attack power than DPS, since VIT values increase faster than STR values on armor.

Ahh, thanks. Didn`t realise that. Seems I`m still bitter about that "nerf".