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

[Ashkendor]

Also cherry-picking another's phrases and words when they clearly said multiple things is rather annoying.

It's kinda funny to see you whine about this because you do a lot of it.

Vitality isn't a "Tank" stat, it simply gives you more health like it does everyone else. It does not reduce your damage in any way. The way this game works is you only need enough health to "not be" one shot so your healers can keep you topped off.

Tank A in VIT pretty much means "Lazy Player." They can clearly see what the two stats do and chose the one because it makes it easier for them. When going STR makes the fight shorter and makes it easier on the entire party.

You're right about one thing - in FFXIV, VIT does not raise your defenses in any way aside from the HP boost. However, it's notable that in many other games it does. That's why you get many veteran tanks coming in from other games and stacking VIT simply because it's what they've always done. It makes sense, right? I know when I first came to this game, I went on the assumption that a tank is a tank is a tank and stacked VIT because that's what I'd done in the past, not to mention that's what's on the accessories I can roll Need on. That has nothing to do with laziness and everything to do with the fact that our tank design is more than a little counter-intuitive.

In any case, we're not here to discuss player laziness. We're here to discuss what may happen with tank stats going forward.