A PSA to all concerned tanks

[Lyth]

Nothing stated in the liveletter indicates that they are going to be removing our attack scaling off of Vit, only adding more value to Strength. In the event that they do make us scale exclusively off of Strength, rest assured that I will be among the first to voice my complaints about what would be an awfully thought out, unfun change that pushes a lot of people from the role.

Regarding the discussion on the tank damage formula (which happens at around 4:20:00 in the Live Letter), the changes will "restore" it to its previous state. An analysis of the translation can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...damage_change/

Attack power will no longer scale with vitality. In addition, when discussing role-locked accessories, tanks were described as "Vitality Main", implying that the accessories will be vitality only and will not contribute to your dps outside of secondary stats.

Before you launch a campaign on our behalf, however, I think there's a few points worth mentioning. Switching to a Vit-only damage formula would require going back and changing every piece of left-side tank gear that has been released thus far. It would also mean that, if you were deciding on tank HP values for a new raid tier, you would not be able to independently control tank dps. You'd have to change the multiplier for attack power with every new tier of gear.

My main worry isn't the potential damage nerf. It's the damage scaling on tank accessories. If there's no STR on your accessories, then the only difference between tiers will come from secondary stats. This could work if tenacity is weighted highly enough. But overall, I think the best solution would be to have the accessories be VIT + STR (although the STR could be set significantly lower then the amount found on melee dps accessories, to achieve whatever balance they were aiming for). You want your group to be at least somewhat excited when tank accessories drop on the first floor of Omega. Not annoyed at it.