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

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Not once in his post does he mention HP being linked to attack power...he says if VIT became the damage modifier it would throw things out of balance if HP scaling was left as is.

Yea, I slightly misinterpreted his post, but, it seems to rest on the assumption that new vit would be greater than or equal to current str. And we don't know that for that sure. My point was more along the lines of, I don't see how there would be a huge disparity between war and the other tanks. 35k HP is a bit unreasonable, the only way to reach that is by using defiance and why would you use defiance if you're trying to dps. So take the high HP out of the equation, all the tanks would have the same Vitality stat and *likely* the same attack power.

More to Johnny's point, if vit = str then, it's true, there wouldn't be a need drag a dps along with half the survivability of a tank. So we can pretty much rest assured that whatever they come up with, new vit will not equal current str.