Primals Hard Questions

[Lithera]

Actually STR impacts shield block and parry damage mitigation. Once you start getting myth and coil gear your HP isn't going to be a huge issue. You still want mostly VIT but even a small amount of STR could push you up a tier in block/parry mitigation.

[CianaIezuborn]

Actually STR impacts shield block and parry damage mitigation. Once you start getting myth and coil gear your HP isn't going to be a huge issue. You still want mostly VIT but even a small amount of STR could push you up a tier in block/parry mitigation.

I use the term "Mitigation" to mean guaranteed reduction and "Avoidance" to mean rng reduction in general. Increase to damage reduction % on an avoidance roll falls into avoidance as a result.

The tier system on str parry/block reduction increases(No gain at all except at certain values, about 30 points apart) kills any unplanned dumps into Str, though it's possible that someone at BiS could respec for a few str to hit the next tier. But you would need to respec every upgrade before that to not waste VIT, so when giving gearing advice to people it's rarely worth mentioning.

Regardless, Turn 5 Death Sentence hit's for at least 4800 w/o cooldowns, the more hp the better.