Dear SE: Please just put STR on tank accessories

[eagledorf]

With a patch coming up, there seem to be three possibilities for SE to fix i270 accessories being the best option for tanks right now.

1. Add STR to Fending accessories
2. Revert Attack Power calculation to VIT+STR
3. Lock tanks out of the i270 accessories as well

There is one simple reason SE should do the first option and not the others. That is that with options 2 or 3 tanks and only tanks must meld tier VI materia in order to get their primary stat on the right side.

That is a burden of a 250k-500k gil every gear set for my server. Tanking is simply not affordable when you need to spend that kind of gil to get your primary stat and what is the logic in penalizing people for playing the least popular role? I personally think we should want to get DPS queues down to reasonable times so it seems to me SE should be rewarding players who tank and heal, not hitting them with a half-million gil fine.

It also means tanks, and only tanks, don't get to choose their melds. They can't meld Tenacity if they want to be defensive or Direct Hit so they can get big numbers on Fell Cleave, they have to meld STR. In fact, with a third of your slots consumed with STR materia, Tenacity materia are going to be worthless again.

Option 3 is obviously the worst because STR is twice as valuable than with option 2, but option 1 eliminates the problem entirely. Tanks can meld just like any other job, or not meld if they're only going to use a certain piece for a short time. Please make the obvious choice.

Thanks,
a player