Strength Tanks and You.

[GalkaBikini]

If the drama and cruelty keeps up SE will eventually be forced to do something about the accessories. Then it won't matter what anyone thinks or prefers.

[Eisen-Zorn]

I wear STR rings and that's it. I also divided my VIT/STR attributes to 15 each and I have over 12k HP and I have no problem. I rarely get dropped (only happens when a healer is downed, obviously,) and I can pull mad chunks of hate even with MNK, NIN, or BLM spamming whatever. It works for me, might not work for some. Still, I'm happy with my build.

[AkashiXI]

From my point of view, 3.0 is toothless right now when it comes to difficult content; so Tanks are whipping out STR accessories since there's nothing to worry about, no savage mode that gates them behind a hp, ilevel requirement, etc. I see no harm in any tank carrying both a STR and VIT set for diversity sake, and I do see issues with the community trying to stunt the metagame behind it. If you can survive any hit, you know your cooldown rotations, and you understand the fight, let the tank wear dps accessories so the fight goes quicker.

[Izsha]

As I said in one of the other 1000 stupid tank threads.

Good tanks can pull it off because they know fights inside and out, when they will take damage, how to optimize cooldowns etc to survive rather comfortably (in current content) with a lot less hp.

Bad tanks don't know how to manage their defenses in a specific encounter and need more hp to compensate .

The only problem is everyone thinks they are good tanks.

wearing str gear and still tanking effectively is something only good tanks can do. Therefore everyone does it because "I'm awesome too!" And by telling them to wear vit you say to them "no you aren't good enough to pull off str" and people can't handle the idea that they aren't the best at everything like mommy and their trophy case full of participation ribbons Saya they are.

I still blame society for creating an entire generation of entitled brats that can't comprehend that failure is a natural part of life.

Bottom line is there is nothing lost by a skilled player goin str. It happens successfully every single day. It works get over it. On the other hand there is an army of less skilled tanks that try and fail to pull it off. That's bad. Stop it. It's not always the healers fault you die. People just can't accept that there are people who do stuff they cant.

This problem would go away if BOTH extremes in this fight would just get over themselves. Not every str tank is good enough. Also not every tank actually needs full vit so quit whining on both sides. This is ridiculous.

[AkashiXI]

I still blame society for creating an entire generation of entitled brats that can't comprehend that failure is a natural part of life.

Wooow, what a great segue this thread is for your social apathy towards society. That's great that you hate the world and all, but let's not read in between the lines of a blank page, okay? On another note, I agree with everything else you said.

[Khemorex]

snip.

acutally forget it :P

[Eye_Gore]

As I said in one of the other 1000 stupid tank threads.

Couldn't you have just linked them or do you have this speech typed out ready to go? I guess after 1000 times it would only make sense to have this ready to go at a moments notice.

[Izsha]

Couldn't you have just linked them or do you have this speech typed out ready to go? I guess after 1000 times it would only make sense to have this ready to go at a moments notice.

Couldn't the OP and every poster in this thread just have linked or better, used the existing threads? Yeah. But 36 pages or people didnt. Guess I'm just another one of the sheeple today!

[Eye_Gore]

Couldn't the OP and every poster in this thread just have linked or better, used the existing threads? Yeah. But 36 pages or people didnt. Guess I'm just another one of the sheeple today!

My guess is that they, like you are free to post or start any thread you wish to. Maybe the OP wanted to clarify something and instead of burying deep in 30 plus page thread where hardly anyone will see it, wanted their point more visible. Thing was the OP was healer talking about STR tanks and having to keep up the healing vs a VIT tank where they can have a buffer and maybe them in turn can offer up some DPS themselves. Not everyone is an amazing hero type gamer as many here have pointed out their greatness, but just want to play have fun with as little stress as possible.

[Vandril]

Couldn't you have just linked them or do you have this speech typed out ready to go? I guess after 1000 times it would only make sense to have this ready to go at a moments notice.

Please, allow me to assist you in strengthening your comprehension of the quoted part of his post.

As I said in one of the other 1000 stupid tank threads.