Quote Originally Posted by SpookyGhost View Post
Anyway, it's really weird that SE hasn't done anything about this tbh. They know it exists but they really just can't seem to be bothered to fix it. Donjo's post implies it's an accident that the STR focus exists, but it seems like they're okay with it sticking around. I dunno, I feel like they forgot what tanks actually are meant to do and instead made DPS that occasionally press a CD to mitigate big damage.
They probably don't *like* it but have decided the development time needed to address it wouldn't be worth the gain, as I imagine they'd actually want to keep tank potential for damage roughly the same (given their stance on healer DPS in progression, they probably want people to be able to push tank DPS just the same as healers can). That would mean not only a retooling of tank stats, but more than likely adjustments to tank stances and most of their abilities, too.