Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[Serba]

I'd love if they made it like ffxi were u could swap your gearsets in fights. It was a great part of the gameplay there.
Wouldnt make that much sense for other jobs than tanks, because secondarys dont make that much difference as they did in ffxi (like haste or mab), but still, would be cool
Always loves to swap from tp/refresh gear, to ws/nuke gear. Or having a pld set for hp down > hp up, to get a shitload of enmity with cure 3/4 spaming.

[Asierid]

I'd love if they made it like ffxi were u could swap your gearsets in fights. It was a great part of the gameplay there.

If by great you mean redundant and clunky.

Give the player more options in customizing their character/sub stats. Tanks already have this choice (abiet, small) where other jobs in this game do not. It already doesn't effect much outside of progression for a tank to stack STR/Det/Crit, at least give us different sets with different substats that we can play around with. Give stupid little set bonuses like crit/det procs or something.

Having to play Starcraft to swap gearsets in an MMO just to be effective during a fight is not fun, nor does it flow well, especially when XIVs combat is way faster when compared to XI.

[Nomad-phx]

So essentially what I'm seeing is a lot of people treating every single instance like its Savage when news flash: not everything requires max dps from everyone.

[RapBreon]

So essentially what I'm seeing is a lot of people treating every single instance like its Savage when news flash: not everything requires max dps from everyone.

Nor does it require max tankiness. Hence the conundrum.

[Sensual]

But i'm a tank, not a DPS.

In premade groups this whole thing might work, but in DF? Good luck with that, you're basicly on your own.
I'd rather have a lil less DPS than 10k less HP and die 1000x more often.

[Shyluv]

I've seen tanks go down so quickly in A2 normal. Even if I pull out everything. Synergy, Aspected Benefic, Lightspeed Benefic 2 spam, along with co-healer heals.. and it still wasn't enough. Not only would their HP still be dropping fast, but we'd have usually pulled hate on one or 2 things.

In one group, we wiped 3 times in the same spot. A bard told them to equip VIT gear. When they did, the co-healer and I still had to spam heal a little, but we did finally win in that attempt.

It's much easier to tell the tank to equip some VIT accessories than it is to teach them when and where to use their cooldowns.

[shao32]

a tank with str gear can make the fight little more fast, if the dungeon go very slow is problem of the dps, no the tanks.

[Leonus]

If it makes main tanks feel better, I don't particularly care if the tank puts out huge numbers. I just want tanks and healers (combined) to put out to put out "enough" to make the difference in new raids (dps aRe only going to be ablessed to preform so well unail theh get bether gear).

Let's be real, the hard part of raids isn't usually just the mechanics, since you know when they are coming. It's maintaining a constant level of (raid) dps output over an 8-12 minute fight while adhering to mechanics. Easiest time tanks/healers have to contribute to dps is in the first few minutes if the raid. After that, it's on the dps to keep pushing as hard as they can.

[Alistaire]

But i'm a tank, not a DPS.

In premade groups this whole thing might work, but in DF? Good luck with that, you're basicly on your own.
I'd rather have a lil less DPS than 10k less HP and die 1000x more often.

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

[Freyyy]

But i'm a tank, not a DPS.

Yeah. Keep that narrow-sighted mentality. You're right. You're only here to take hits and use that blade/axe as a dance accessory just to keep enemy's attention and nothing else. Maybe you should also consider being a pink-haired female Miqo'te with a japanese name and using Coliseum gear as a glamour and have a macro that screams "Notice me senpaiii~" everytime you use a CD to be an even more efficient attention-whore. That's totally for this reason that you got Deliverance, Fell Cleave, Decimate, Maim, Fracture, Sword Oath, Royal Authority, Goring Blade, Spirits Within, Blood Weapon, Dark Passenger, DA Carve and Spit, Scourge, Salted Earth, Plunge. You see, all of these moves are purely DPS-based. And there's a LOT of them. They don't have an enmity multiplier. They don't bring anything that makes you tankier. It's just more DPS. (Okay SW can be used to silence targets but it's in the vast majority of the fights totally useless as well as the DA Dark Passenger blind effect). The developers themselves want tanks to DPS. As well as healers. White mages got Assize, Aero III, Stone III from 50 to 60. SCH got Broil which is more potent than SMN's brand new Ruin III.
In other MMOs I would agree that tanks are here to tank and healers are here to heal. But in this specific game, they especially made tanks and healers having really decent damaging capabilities to give them the possibility to also DPS while performing their role at their best if played at their maximum potential. That's a reward for taking the risk to actually surpass your role and it's actually required for Alexander Savage fights. That's what makes the difference between an averagely-good tank and an amazing tank and the same for healers. An averagely-good tank will have no agro issues, and will have a perfect CD management while minimizing movements for melee DPS positionnal requirements. He will also apply buffs and debuffs that can help the party if needed (like Storm's Eye and Path, Divine Veil, Delirium, Reprisal, and PLD will even sometimes toss a Stoneskin here and there, maybe Clemency if the healer is struggling). But an amazing tank will be able to do all of that while beating the shit out of the boss as hard as he can as a tank. It's called skill, or optimal gameplay. DPSing as a tank doesn't prevent you from doing your role at all, it's built in our abilities. You just have to use them properly.

And for that,

I'd rather have a lil less DPS than 10k less HP and die 1000x more often.

This is complete BS. You'll never have 10k less HP when wearing STR accessories (unless you're already in 4.0 and level 70). The difference between a full VIT tank and a full STR one is 4k HP at maximum. Considering that you almost never need these 4k HP (outside of Savage for which the safety cap is something around 16 to 17k HP which is completely attainable with 3 slaying 2 fending or even 4 slaying if you've been lucky with left-side gear loot) if you're playing right, it's wasted. And if you die more often because of it that's because you're not doing it well. Face it. And git gud.
You also don't have "a lil less DPS" when being full VIT. You have a REALLY shitty bad DPS compared to full STR or even hybrid (which most optimal tanks will prefer).

And if a DF healer is not able to keep you alive with full STR accessories and you're doing your tank job correctly, it's a really shitty healer and will struggle as much and for a longer time if you're full VIT. As long as your healer's healing output is below the damage you take, you'll die no matter if you have 10k HP or 30k.