Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I am tired of seeing so many tanks stacked with vitality. Vitality does not increase healing done to you at all.

To clarify. I am not telling people how to play. Just giving tips for new players and people who are concerned with their healers and such. Healers are fully able to heal you fine through dungeons even if your new in full strength gear.
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[nyttyn]

On the note of strength acccessories: Sure, understandable.

On the note of staying in tank stance:


If it's a dungeon, not happening. During large trash pulls, sure, swapping back if there's a emergency, fine, but there's not a single dungeon boss that, if everything's going fine, demands tank stance. You get a net gain in party-wide DPS for dropping tank stance for every tank, and a considerable one at that, so unless things are really hitting the fan (and they shouldn't in this content), any competent tank should be in DPS stance.


Unless they're horribly undergeared then they should stay in tank stance.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

On the note of strength acccessories: Sure, understandable.

On the note of staying in tank stance:


If it's a dungeon, not happening. During large trash pulls, sure, swapping back if there's a emergency, fine, but there's not a single dungeon boss that, if everything's going fine, demands tank stance. You get a net gain in party-wide DPS for dropping tank stance for every tank, and a considerable one at that, so unless things are really hitting the fan (and they shouldn't in this content), any competent tank should be in DPS stance.


Unless they're horribly undergeared then they should stay in tank stance.

I am usually the tank when this happens..

[Galgarion]

On the note of strength acccessories: Sure, understandable.

any competent tank should be in DPS stance.

I wouldn't suggest that this is universally true. Even if equally geared and using strength accessories, there are going to be DPS players so good at their jobs that you won't be able stay in your dps mode indefinitely. Monks are gud now, y'heard?

[kaox_reaper]

So "play how I want you to play" kinda thread? Sounds fun.

[Alistaire]

So "play how is most beneficial to the group" kinda thread? Sounds fun.

ftfy. welcome to multiplayer games, where other people can be affected by your bad decisions.

[Erim-Nelhah]

1- Each atack you Parry reduce dmg 20-25%

Parry got changed, and it no longer scales - at all. It's a flat 20% now. This means that you have to have 5% parry to get 1% mitigation. As a DRK, if I stack parry, I can get close to 20% parry rate, which is 4% mitigation, based on RNG. Paladins get about 5% less, iirc. I'd rather have 2% flat mitigation, tbh. Note: I like parry as DRK, but not for its own mitigation. I don't stack it, but I'm not dumping it entirely either. TBH, STR "mitigates" more damage.

2- More VIT - Parry - Block the tank have more DPS i can Do as healer and surely my DPS will be more than a PLD/DRK with STR accesories - Also on warrior that 20% + healing helps HoTs a lot and let me... do more DPS.

VIT doesn't help your defense at all. Block does, and is a good thing, but VIT doesn't. All VIT does is give you more HP, period. If you have a bad healer and slow dps, you might need more HP, but if the healer's DPS'ing and you're still not falling below 50%, then putting on STR gear is probably a good idea. As for parry, see above.

3- If ur dungeons are taking forever u should check DPSs and urself before point the tank.

True. That doesn't mean you can't help out a bit by using Sword Oath/Deliverance (or having Grit off) when possible and/or having STR accessories when you don't actually need the extra HP.

Give me my tanks full VIT/PARRY with high block rate shields and good CDs rotation, thank u

Most tanks carry VIT accessories. If you're on AST and get a tank that doesn't have enough hp for you to be comfortable, you should ask them (nicely) to put some extra vit on. Me? I could go full STR and you probably wouldn't even know it these days unless you examined me, simply because the amount of VIT I have with i190-i200 and full slaying accessories is nearly the same as I had with i170-i180 gear and full fending accessories.

Oh, and btw....a good WAR in full STR gear is probably easier to heal than any WAR in full VIT (good, bad, or ugly), because many of their self-healing abilities scale with STR.

--Erim Nelhah

[Eye_Gore]

Yeah that 20-30 minutes in dungeons are a killer.

[Ralvenom]

Here's a novel concept: not every tank is uber-geared...

SHOCKER!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Here's a novel concept: not every tank is uber-geared...

SHOCKER!

Would rather have an undergeared strength tank then vitality tank.