Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[Divine_Intervention]

Not everyone wants to play how you want them. Some tanks aren't comfortable switching stances, others simply like having the vit gear to make life easier on their healer.
Ultimately any extra dps from a tank is just that, extra and optional. Helpful.. yeah, mandatory.. hell no.

--edit-- add in that some tanks are just starting their expert runs/gearing up, and are hugely outgeared by dps there.. a whole lot of keep the fuck up with aggro. you lose it once, ya ain't gettin it back kinda thing.

[Kerano]

Haven't seen a serious reason to drop vit at the moment, having lazy healers just afking while i tank shit, only to wake up as i hit the living dead button. Ill stop wearing vit gear when healers start to heal.

[Freyyy]

--edit-- add in that some tanks are just starting their expert runs/gearing up, and are hugely outgeared by dps there.. a whole lot of keep the fuck up with aggro. you lose it once, ya ain't gettin it back kinda thing.

Being outgeared by the DPS is even more reason to go with STR instead of VIT because more damage means also more threat. And by more I mean a LOT more since it works with a multiplier.
And extra DPS from a tank is mandatory for end-game raids. For other content of course not, but believe it or not, it will always help more than extra tankiness.

[Neophyte]

For me Str is the main stat for Tank aswell as Spirit is for healer. Vit & Pie are two secondaries.
I don't see the problem. I'm looking for str gear for my tanks and adjust my vit with my leveling stat points, you know, just to not be oneshoted by some big boss skill. Same for my healer with Spirit and piety.

Yeah, right. There's just one difference: You can't trade MND with PIE at all, because there are no pieces with PIE as main attribute.

You might use an item of lower iLvl (sacrificing MND for PIE-stat, if it's not on the higher ilvl piece). But that's a complete different affair, you're trading 3 MND against 30+ PIE or something like that.

[Divine_Intervention]

That's your opinion, there are many others. Not everyone has to agree with you.
And in raids, if the raid being made or broken on whether your tank can dps well is an issue, i'd say you have issues other than what your tank is wearing.

Roulettes - Sure, strength will help keep aggro ahead of the dps, however, it's also more pressure on the healer who is usually(usually, not always), lazy, incompetent or both.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

wear 1 vit gear if pld if war dark wear 2 vit gears, despite superior war dark dps lack of survivability without healer is noted.

[Senliten]

Welcome to the game where everyone DPS's. You really should get used to that.

/sarcasm Wait, so i'm back in GW2!! WTF MANG!! /end sarcasm

[Freyyy]

And in raids, if the raid being made or broken on whether your tank can dps well is an issue, i'd say you have issues other than what your tank is wearing.

You've never been into savage do you ? DPS checks there require tanks and healers to deal high damage just to meet the enrage timer.

[Kumabear76]

Alrighty, I'm going to ask the stupid question here. Why is it so damned necessary to choose one extreme or the other? I find going all STR can leave me a bit squishy sometimes, and going all VIT can leave me underpowered. That's why I run a hybrid build. I currently use 3 STR / 2 VIT accessories for my WAR and it does wonders. I do monster damage, which keeps hate, and I have nearly 20k HP, which keeps me alive longer. I find that with this setup, my stances affect me far more than my stats. When we get higher iLvl crafted accessories, then I will likely return to penta melded accessories for them.

[Divine_Intervention]

You've never been into savage do you ? DPS checks there require tanks and healers to deal high damage just to meet the enrage timer.

I wondered how long it would be before someone used that. No, i haven't been into alexander savage yet, however i have been into all the other savage modes pre nerfs, on all of the classes i have available. I know how an enrage timer works.
Once again, i say: If your raid is failing because your tank isn't putting out an extra * amount of damage, the issue isn't just your tank.

*sigh*. Does my nut in when people throw that crap around.