The Death Penalty is no excuse for scaling tank damage with STR again

[Vallamaria]

Give tank gear more vitality in exchange for less power, tanks do less damage & have more HP, goal achieved?

If you're saying keep Tank damage scaling off STR but just giving Tank gear more VIT to "compensate" then that would please nobody. Because as many people on the forum have pointed out lately there comes a point where you don't need more HP. As long as you have enough HP to survive then any excess just becomes absolutely pointless. Which is precisely what has created this situation where Tanks are now wearing ilvl 270 STR accessories instead of the current high end VIT accessories.

[Jandor]

If you're saying keep Tank damage scaling off STR but just giving Tank gear more VIT to "compensate" then that would please nobody. Because as many people on the forum have pointed out lately there comes a point where you don't need more HP. As long as you have enough HP to survive then any excess just becomes absolutely pointless. Which is precisely what has created this situation where Tanks are now wearing ilvl 270 STR accessories instead of the current high end VIT accessories.

No, I'm saying do away with STR altogether. All the main stats except VIT are identical in function.

I think SE have at least partially moved us back over to STR as the half and half scaling with VIT means when SE want to tweak gear to alter tank DPS it also alters tank HP. It would be easier to just have one main attack stat, lock gear based on whatever (role, job, who cares,) and if they want to mess with tank DPS they can just raise or lower the main attack stat on our gear as required.

Admittedly they could do the same thing while still using STR and locking accessories to roles, just a personal annoyance that we have a variety of main stats with no actual variety.