Strength Tanks

[maelor]

There is no reason why a tank can't put AT LEAST some of their allocation/gear toward STR. It really helps. My main is a tank so I know. I'm not saying that a lot of STR is a good idea, VIT is the tank stat, but more dps is ALWAYS good for a fight, no matter where it comes from. The poster doesn't know what they are talking about.

[Hayward]

There is no reason why a tank can't put AT LEAST some of their allocation/gear toward STR. It really helps. My main is a tank so I know. I'm not saying that a lot of STR is a good idea, VIT is the tank stat, but more dps is ALWAYS good for a fight, no matter where it comes from. The poster doesn't know what they are talking about.

Too many people take this idea too far, though. A Ninja should not ever have more HP than a Paladin (That was the case with me a couple of days ago. What healer should have to put up with that?

[whiskeybravo]

Too many people take this idea too far, though. A Ninja should not ever have more HP than a Paladin (That was the case with me a couple of days ago. What healer should have to put up with that?

Then that's because they were lacking on left-side upgrades, which of course needs to be taken into consideration when gearing for str. Taking it too far is a good way to put it.

[Jim_Berry]

I was a full VIT PLD, but since I got DRK up to Lv60, and I'm seeing a difference in damage dealt even in full VIT on DRK, I'm beginning to question if I should slap on two or three pieces of STR for added effect. My question(s) to you all:

- Should I put all Attributes into STR and wear all VIT accessories?

- Should I put all Attributes into VIT and wear all STR accessories?

- Should I go 50/50 STR/VIT Attributes and mix accessories?

[Merkava]

I was a full VIT PLD, but since I got DRK up to Lv60, and I'm seeing a difference in damage dealt even in full VIT on DRK, I'm beginning to question if I should slap on two or three pieces of STR for added effect. My question(s) to you all:

- Should I put all Attributes into STR and wear all VIT accessories?

- Should I put all Attributes into VIT and wear all STR accessories?

- Should I go 50/50 STR/VIT Attributes and mix accessories?

It really boils down to your level of expertise, your ilvl and confidence you have in your healers. Proper tanking in this game is 90% efficient cooldown management and the extra HP bloat makes very little difference when you can kill things twice as fast as an STR tank than you could as a VIT. Personally, as a i200+ WAR, I tend to just roll full slaying with all my points allocated into STR.

If you are in the process of learning and want to test the waters you could do something like full STR stat allocation with 3x Fending and 2x Slaying ACCs. Slowly changing as you grow more and more confident. Just be aware that pretty much anything that isn't savage nor extreme is extremely easy to do with a full STR setup once you fully understand your job.

[whiskeybravo]

I was a full VIT PLD, but since I got DRK up to Lv60, and I'm seeing a difference in damage dealt even in full VIT on DRK, I'm beginning to question if I should slap on two or three pieces of STR for added effect. My question(s) to you all:

- Should I put all Attributes into STR and wear all VIT accessories?

- Should I put all Attributes into VIT and wear all STR accessories?

- Should I go 50/50 STR/VIT Attributes and mix accessories?

I have all 3 tanks with 35 str. War has the best left side gear so I tend to run full slaying, PLD and DRK left side gear is behind, depending on content I'll usually roll 3 str 2 vit. But I don't run all that much on PLD or DRK.

this is likely to change in 3.2, however

[Tagihi]

I was a full VIT PLD, but since I got DRK up to Lv60, and I'm seeing a difference in damage dealt even in full VIT on DRK, I'm beginning to question if I should slap on two or three pieces of STR for added effect. My question(s) to you all:

- Should I put all Attributes into STR and wear all VIT accessories?

- Should I put all Attributes into VIT and wear all STR accessories?

- Should I go 50/50 STR/VIT Attributes and mix accessories?

maybe mix ur accessories for exampel i go 2 vit with nice stats with 3 str.
I may not bring super high dps cuz thats not my job but enought to support the team.

Go fully str has it pro and cons, Same as full vit rember healer has not unlimited mana to spam to keep ur hp top.

[Ragnorak]

Hmm this is still going *popcorn*