Strength Tanks

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

Quite frankly when the entirety of enmity mechanics is based purely on attack power and damage, and PLD's not only have the lowest damage of any class even when optimized for DPS, but the lowest hate modifiers of any tank, yeah there are just some hurdles that can't be avoided. Now if they actually put some value into VIT outside of just meeting a tankbuster threshold yeah sure, but when the devs build the game around a DPS meta, people can cry and moan all they want about VIT it just doesn't serve any real application beyond an hp barrier.

The issue with Paladin DPS is the way the class is designed, and the potencies of its skills. It is not the damage multiplier that makes the difference. Every tank piece has the same amount of VIT on it, so changing how tanks calculate damage to VIT changes nothing for paladin – it will still remain in 3rd on the DPS chart.

There's certainly truth that of the 3 tanks, if you're -going- to have a tank go full vit and pure brick wall, Paladin is the tank that suffers least from it. Provided you dont nerf your threat into the ground, a full vit full fending paladin will be less "bad" than DRK/WAR simply because so much of those jobs' power and utility comes from their higher dps and their dps-into-self-healing conversion. Plus on trash pulls the Paladin relies on Flash a reasonable amount, so the lack of damage stats doesnt affect them as much as it would nerf a Warrior's overpower or DRK's abyssal/salted.

Not condoning it of course, as Strength is still the optimal way to go. But if you're someone who for some reason -really- wants to be a low damage uber health brick wall tank, Paladin is the one that pulls it off best relative to the effectiveness they lose from not going Strength.

I would be willing to bet that the damage all tanks do going from full STR to full VIT would reduce by the same amount (per class) If a full STR WAR does 20% more damage than a full STR PLD, it will be the same ration on full VIT builds.

Like Aomine said, I used to stack 2 VIT accessories and 3 STR. But this was back in 2.x when secondary stats meant more, and the amount of HP needed to survive the tank buster was more than my present left side gear could handle. (this was the poor man’s version of the fully pentamelded right side). Since my left side gear gives me all the HP I need for raid, I no longer wear VIT accessories.