Quote Originally Posted by MythToken View Post
If you are not dying from boss hits, then adding STR seems like a very legit thing to do. Especially with changing 2ndary stats to dps.
That has always been the case though. The issue is that the content that you actually stand to run is always going to push your eHP because of the devs' love of spike damage. Even if you can reliably survive a DS, you're still basically guaranteed at least once per t5 to get a plummet>auto-attack>DS (or plummet>DS>plummet or plummet>DS with healers in a conflag or...) which still stands a reasonable chance of killing you before you get healed back up. Because you can basically assume that it'll happen, you should itemize around that event.

eHP is one of those weird stats where there is an explicit functional cap but you can never be quite sure if you're there or not because it's both situational and probabilistic. You can only be sure that you've got enough for the 95th percentile or what have you. Since the devs love spike damage so very much, it takes a fair deal of VIT to make sure that you're actually within those top percentiles that you want to be in. As such, unless you're running content that you explicitly outgear, you're better off going full VIT to make sure that you don't die because a dead tank is almost always a wipe, especially in progression content.