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    Cirgellon's Avatar
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    Cirgellon Dailemont
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    Behemoth
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    Archer Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Nezerius View Post
    Let me just link you two of the items in question, since I'm not sure you fully understand the topic at hand.
    Diamond Necklace of Fending
    Black Willow Necklace of Fending
    They're both tanking accessories, but the i350 crafted version is valued higher than the i370 version.

    Tanks aren't asking for actual dps/slaying accessories, they're asking for the higher ilvl Fending accessories to actually be upgrades.
    Be upgrades by being dps focused*

    So you aren't claiming that those 50 accessories are better because you meld them to be dps? How was I wrong exactly?
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    Nezerius's Avatar
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    Rintha Elenah
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Lancer Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Cirgellon View Post
    Be upgrades by being dps focused*
    What else would tanks be focusing on, oh wise one?
    Because health isn't worth stacking after sitting at an amount where you can comfortably handle tank busters with proper CD usage.
    Quote Originally Posted by Cirgellon
    So you aren't claiming that those 50 accessories are better because you meld them to be dps? How was I wrong exactly?
    I hope you realise that literally every meld option for tanks increases a tank's dps. Even tenacity.
    By your definition, the only tanks that don't meld their accessories to be dps, are the ones that don't meld them at all.
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    Last edited by Nezerius; 07-14-2018 at 07:07 PM.

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    Yuri Goggles
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    Ultros
    Main Class
    Botanist Lv 80
    Minus the sarcasm, I agree with Nezerius. First of all, 99.9% of melding is DPS-focused by design, the only exceptions are piety and vitality, and even piety can indirectly boost healer DPS. A tank that melds at all is melding for DPS, because that is quite literally the only thing they can meld that actually affects them. Furthermore, the idea that a 350 accessory is better than a 370 because of DPS isn't just an opinion, it's a mathematical fact. Tanks receive no benefit for boosting their health beyond what is required to survive a buster and one (maaaaaaybe two) auto-attacks afterward, as survival is completely binary and having more health will not reduce healer GCD usage, and is therefore irrelevant. Additionally the safety net the extra vitality on the 370 accessories provides is useless because you've clearly demonstrated that you didn't need it to clear the fight, hence having the accessory in the first place.

    Stop trying to reinforce the idea of role purity where it simply does not exist.
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