Full STR WAR is nothing to write off.

[OmegaSinX]

Nothing is a must, but your job is staying alive and that is it whatever makes your healer life easier is what you should be doing. In fact the extra HP becomes even more valuable due to mitigation. 5% even a 10% increased DPS is not worth you accidentally dying cuz u get hit by 2 liquid chained with DS+plummet+auto.

Grpyphonskin rings are probably fine when u have 8k+. But going full str means you lose 500+ hp and I would never give that up for measly tiny increase in DPS in scope of things. Imagine all your hard work increasing your dps can be completely overshadow by an extra firestarter proc.

Seeing that we will spam inner beast for most fights in 2.1, It's debateable on which will make healers life easier: With vit you have 500 more base Hp vs With STR Spec where you have 300-500 more self heal every 20secs with inner beast. This is not accounting Bloodbath and Stormpath..... Hmmmmmm.

EDIT: To add, the DPS increase with full str and gryph is far from measly. Not when i can hit 600-900 BB combo's, 350+ tomahawks/overpowers, 600+ Steel Cyclone's and 1100+ Innerbeast.