It's been informed to me that WAR's wearing STR gear isn't correct.

[Huntington]

Based on the cumulative whining and *****ing from my last Shiva EX group, wearing DPS gear on WAR is playing the class incorrectly.

The basis for this was that the healers didn't see the need to use any cross-class abilities like Virus or Eye for an Eye on anyone because it shouldn't be needed. While the two MNKs said Mantra never served a point if people were already dead, I.E. me, because healers let me die twice through the runs because they prioritized healing DPS before me. Then we have the other two DPS, BLMs, who also should have access to Virus and Eye for an Eye, which means 4 people could have been passing it around to the tanks given if they've ever leveled Arcanist at all, widely decreasing Shiva's overall DPS to the group throughout the fight.

They never used Apocatastasis on anyone, Lethargy(if it even works on Shiva, but that doesn't mean it couldn't on the Ice Soldiers), and so on and so forth.
But no, not once did I ever see Virus pop up on Shiva, or Eye for an Eye on me and the other tank. And apparently it's just a waste of time to use such things because tanks shouldn't be needing those things to begin with, and if they do need(or should I say, request them), it's through some fault of their own.

Is this how other DPS rationalize things these days? Is it honestly considered flaming when you ask why none of these things are being used on the party? I can't remember a time when I said to myself "Don't put Eye for an Eye on the tank when the healer's cooldown for it isn't ready yet, he's bad if he needs this ability and I'm going to tell him that." It's something tangibly close to sacrilege apparently when you ask such a thing.

This community never ceases to amuse and irritate me I swear to Hydaelyn.

(Small note since re-reading my post it seems one thing wasn't made clear by me. I have a mixed accessory set of STR and VIT being worn currently, they said I was using WAR incorrectly because I was using any DPS gear at all, and my lower HP but higher damage and better enmity generation didn't matter in the slightest because I was simply playing badly with it.)