Quote Originally Posted by Magic-Mal View Post
Oh they knew. They knew since HW at the very least, when the "STR Tank" craze got big. They figured out the theorycrafted builds with STR and decided to nerf strength to only give half a point of "damage" and added a damage effect to VIT to encourage players to wear VIT jewelry over STR jewelry. They then reverted the change after alot of backlash.
The revert was mostly due to the changes to Weakness/Brink of Death with Stormblood; they no longer affect your Vitality, and instead are penalties to your other stats. They obviously couldn’t just have tank’s damage untouched by Weakness/Brink, so they reverted to STR. On top of the other changes they made.