What they mean by "change the damage calculations of tanks"?

[Critical-Limit]

I really hope it's not just make VIT also do damage. Stats are linear enough already. There is hardly any sort of customization in the game. You can't express yourself in your playstyle. I love how tank is right now and wish they'd do the same for other jobs, where you have more than one stat that really means something.

[Klamor]

...and wish they'd do the same for other jobs, where you have more than one stat that really means something.

Yea, I'm a huge fan of going into a new raid tier and not being able to roll Need on the loot that I need to do my job. That on top of sacrificing what I really want to do, which is Tank. But you kinda have something going there... If they make every job as equally undesirable as Paladin, then we end up with a pretty even playing field even if I would expect then that people don't play.

/endsarcasm

[Alahra]

I really hope it's not just make VIT also do damage. Stats are linear enough already. There is hardly any sort of customization in the game. You can't express yourself in your playstyle. I love how tank is right now and wish they'd do the same for other jobs, where you have more than one stat that really means something.

While it would be nice if other classes had that sort of customization, the difficulty would be in actually modifying the existing classes so that they could support it. With the stats as they are, no DPS class is going to reasonably want multiple stats unless they moved to an itemization model in which the VIT present on left-side gear wasn't enough for HP checks in content. They'd need some sort of secondary effect for each main stat to encourage these kinds of things (something more like FFXI's system, probably), and they'd also need to modify existing gear such that it would generally need three primary stats (say, STR and DEX for melee, plus the already present VIT).

And even if they did all that, since the other primary stat would undoubtedly just be a damage boost and they'd need to be somewhat balanced with one another, it probably wouldn't ever matter for DPS which stat they focused on. The main reason tanks currently function in the way they do is because offense and defense are both important to them, which generally isn't the case for other classes (though if Cleric Stance didn't exist, Healers might have a similar dichotomy).

[Syzygian]

I really hope it's not just make VIT also do damage. Stats are linear enough already. There is hardly any sort of customization in the game. You can't express yourself in your playstyle. I love how tank is right now and wish they'd do the same for other jobs, where you have more than one stat that really means something.

Please don't be naive. You can't express yourself now either. Its str or you're bad. Even melds at this point are dubious. You can hit 17k+ hp (enough to survive A3/4S) in party with 2 melds/3 slaying and some hq tank food.

The way the game is designed now there will never be more than two primary stats for any job where one of said stats is not unequivocally better than the other.