The Definitive Dark Knight Guide

[Allyrion]

Strength is the only way to go until bosses hit you harder than your healers can heal you for, and at that point you're just lacking defense. VIT is usually covered by the left side of your gear, if you want to be a bit more tank you can get a few tanking accessories. Most seem to go for 1 or 2 items. One out of them usually being a ring since you can't stack two strength rings anyway. (Without doing the 180+170 thing)

Bonus is the first place to add strength since it's a 1:1 exchange with vit. Accessories give more vit than strength so swapping those isn't as "strong".

The idea, since vit doesn't actually reduce damage taken, is that you want enough HP to take the hardest hit you'll encounter. Once you're at that level strength is more useful since it always give you more damage extra vit is just extra.

This is true for any tank class.

Thanks!
That makes sense. I've just seen a lot of DRKs health ping pong and wondered if added vit would be better for DRK in particular.
But yea, new to tank meta in this game in general too so I guess I have to catch up on basic knowledge.