Tanks, please use strength gear.. :(

[Nektulos-Tuor]

It probably depends on what you mean by bad. A bad tank's going to be bad either way, but VIT makes things more comfortable for the healer when they're having to keep the tank alive through poor cooldown usage, eating AoEs, etc. But an average VIT tank and an average STR tank are a lot different. In my experience, a lot of tanks don't really use cooldowns aggressively on trash pulls (there's a sort of DPS mentality that you save them for the bosses, if I had to guess, which is sort of the opposite of what you should do as a tank in most dungeons), and STR tanking does tend to require fairly aggressive cooldown usage. VIT tanking doesn't really need to be that aggressive with them except for a few significant pulls from what I've seen, though. And that's where the difference is really.

They are missing that 27% damage/threat/aggro though. Which is huge. Very huge, especially since healing also scales off strength.

[Ashkendor]

It probably depends on what you mean by bad. A bad tank's going to be bad either way, but VIT makes things more comfortable for the healer when they're having to keep the tank alive through poor cooldown usage, eating AoEs, etc. But an average VIT tank and an average STR tank are a lot different. In my experience, a lot of tanks don't really use cooldowns aggressively on trash pulls (there's a sort of DPS mentality that you save them for the bosses, if I had to guess, which is sort of the opposite of what you should do as a tank in most dungeons), and STR tanking does tend to require fairly aggressive cooldown usage. VIT tanking doesn't really need to be that aggressive with them except for a few significant pulls from what I've seen, though. And that's where the difference is really.

Nah. Very few bosses require cd's even when tanking them in DPS stance. The bosses in Fractal hit harder than the ones in Neverreap, but the hard hitting skills have cast bars so it doesn't really matter. You should be using cd's on big trash pulls.

They are missing that 27% damage/threat/aggro though. Which is huge. Very huge, especially since healing also scales off strength.

Before anyone takes this as misinformation, it's only self heals that scale off strength.

[Eye_Gore]

Nah. Very few bosses require cd's even when tanking them in DPS stance. The bosses in Fractal hit harder than the ones in Neverreap, but the hard hitting skills have cast bars so it doesn't really matter. You should be using cd's on big trash pulls.

But why not use them? Not like its detrimental to anyone. Reminds me of one run in Neverreap was a large pull, noticed my health really low went to pop off HG but not in time and died. When I respawned I apologized for not getting HG off in time, just got met with grief by one playing saying I shouldn't need it on trash pulls. Well I know I shouldn't need it but I have and if it meant not dying I'm going to use it. Again its not detrimental I have the abilities may as well use them. An unused ability is a useless ability.