Tank Accessoires 4.0

[eagledorf]

Yes, because Square Enix removed the effect of Vitality on attack power for tanks, which means in order to maximize DPS (and self-healing) tanks will again choose STR accessories over VIT at whatever ilevel they can get them once they have enough HP for the content and their healer.

There's a lot of people guessing that this is because of spaghetti code like how in order to make magic blockable they ended up making blocking work from all directions (I believe magic is not directional by default since Ravana also had the bug where spells were unaffected by his perfect defense). Because food has VIT and weakness no longer lowers VIT the guess is they had to prevent VIT from increasing attack power to keep tanks from being immune to weakness and getting too much benefit from food.

Of course, they could have just put STR on the tank accessories, but they didn't. Please look forward to your next tank having 12k less HP.