Strength Tanks and You.

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The amount of DPS a healer can dish out in Cleric Stance massively trumps the DPS of a tank in STR gear. A healer will sometimes allow a tank to drop a bit in health to stay in Cleric Stance longer (this is more true for WHM and AST because they don't have the luxury of free heals from a fairy). A tank with VIT gear can take more hits before he hits the 50% HP mark, allowing for the healer to DPS more, and thus, decreasing the run time significantly.

That would work if most healers would be DPSing or know how to manage their mana and I would do big pulls, Indeed if I do big pulls I'll go in VIT gear and pull a lot to let the healer DPS, but in situations where I can't do big pulls for whatever reason I prefer to use STR gear, same on bosses that usually don't hit a lot.

As I am now with my tank I'm leveling (lvl 57 ) If I take big pulls in VIT gear I would be sure to have the melee doing monotargeting skills and the healer stick on healing instead of using big spells ( and I have seen healers heal so bad that having more STR for more life drain would actually help me ), so I'd rather take little packs and go in STR, if I get a good AoE team I change but that doesn't happens a lot.