Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
Yup, as I said before, if you want to maximise your output, go for the damage stat melds, it will not reduce your mitigation in any significant number. And then again, if you want to meld tenacity where it can be melded, that won't significantly reduce your DPS either. Just make sure you have the right amount of skillspeed if you're a GNB or DRK.
Each expansion I kind of hope substats get tweaked so they're actually stronger as you stack them. For four, it's linear, so your largest gains are when you have less.

For one, it's geometric scaling but you can't get enough for it to hit the points where it gets stupid (Haste) and for most jobs it just causes problems.

And lastly, Critical's double scaling just means it's somewhere in the middle.

I think if you stack one to the detriment of others, you should get a better deal out of it. Tenacity and Piety could use a quick retuning as well. If you want to be the ironwall or the healer who can handle everything going wrong, I think that should be a viable gearing choice. Everyone can still be the '1337 dps tank' but aiming to be the durable tank shouldn't be the downside, or rather, non-choice it is right now. I think stats should matter, rather than just being able to blindly up iLevel and be fine.