Quote Originally Posted by Eye_Gore View Post
What is funny, is it really doesn't matter. I have not had a single instance that was failed because I had more VIT and not enough STR or vice versa. I have not had a single instance where I was told I do not have enough VIT or STR. I have not had a single instance where someone said "wow that went so fast, thanks tank for wearing full STR to get us through so quickly". I have not had a single instance where someone said "wow that took so long to get done, tank why are you wearing full VIT?"

Come to think of it, I have had no instance where anyone said anything about what I was wearing. So it seems, it really makes no difference. Now this is all in response to the comment in which I quoted about dungeon bosses. If there is such an issue that in regular dungeons, my choice of STR or VIT gear is going to make or break the party, we have problems other than what I'm wearing.
This actually a very valid point. The issue is that STR spec is such a popular idea and people QQ about the expenses of pentamelds (I've never achieved more than 5 million gil, which is very much 3rd world, in my entire time playing this game, and I have a full set of i150 pentamelds), that most people don't know how to properly take advantage of a skilled tank that just happens to have a large HP pool. While I haven't encountered such comments either, myself, I have seen even sillier stuff (people criticizing fending gear with str melds as opposed to slaying gear with vit melds)...

...the whole fallacy of it all is that individuals out there think they know of some magical unicorn BiS for tanks when really the concept of a BiS for tanks is moronic, any player that takes tanking seriously should be ready and willing to swap gearsets at a moment's notice depending on the demands being made of them. I played a good bit of DPS in 2.x, I know what it means to have a REAL BiS. Tanks don't have it, nor should they. Its the job of a tank to be adaptable.