Quote Originally Posted by Ogulbuk View Post
Another likely case is they never wanted tanks to do that much damage, and the VIT+STR scaling was only a temporary fix until someone decided that they would, indeed, lock accessories behind role groups. I say: fine, but not going all the way and doing this to all back-gear is contradictory, if so.
It's not a "likely" case. It is "the" case. Your reasoning is exactly what the devs had in mind, but apparently, everyone seems to have forgotten it.


The more I read the forums since a week and the more I feel like I'm about the only who remembers that:

1- The STR+VIT formula was actually an overall damage nerf to using pure STR accessories, but a buff to people who were using VIT accessories.

2- It "was" stated that this was a temporary fix and that it would one day (read: 4.0) be reverted to STR only with role-locked accessories, but the reasoning why it would be made like that was because, when the "fix" was introduced, they were so advanced in the concept of the gear that would be released during 3.x that, for a development point of view, it made more sense to devote the revert to STR formula during 4.0 with the rest of the revamping of the battle system.

Maybe I'm just hallucinating because when I see people talking as if SE hadn't "learned from its mistakes", I'm like: "But I've know it would get to this for awhile!".

Also, when I see people extrapolating so much on the STR meta regarding the incoming Savage Raid, I feel like it's needed to remind everyone that is coming out in another TWO weeks and that maybe, just maybe, it's a little early.


Therefore, as crazy as it sounds, I don't know why people are thinking that they will either revert to STR/VIT or role-lock the i270 accessories. I've been under the assumption that for the past year, this was their design, all along, and that come Omega Savage people will realize that even that 20-30% DPS increase will not suffice to survive the incoming damage, and in the end, if you don't survive the tankbusters, well, you do zero damage and you wipe. Then again, the Savage Raid isn't out yet, so...

"But we are having more difficulty to keep hate while in DPS stance", some say? First, remain longer in tank stance, second, ask your DPS, Healers and Off-tanks to use all the wonderful skills such as Diversion, Lucid Dreaming and Shirk they have at their disposition. Since when has hate management been "only" the responsibility of the main tanks and not a team effort?