Strength Tanks

[Syzygian]

Except that there's this misconception that having STR accessories causes you to take "more damage" which is not the case at all. It simply gives less time before your healer needs to pop out of cleric stance and begin healing you.

As long as your health bar is decreasing at a rate that's reasonable enough for healers to stance dance and dps with relative ease, there's zero reason to have any extra VIT at the expense of STR.

I'd say that this misconception barely exists anymore, people have been so militant about stamping it out. Instead people are swinging to the other extreme, which is that having VIT accessories means you don't know how to do your job, which, to parrot back your words, is not the case at all, it simply means the tank wants to be able to soak up as much damage as possible before anyone in the party needs to worry.

I say this is a tank that primarily uses STR gear and uses melds to meet HP checks. I do this purely because its what my static prefers and I adapt to meet their needs.

You could also argue that unless there is an enrage that the extra 300 or so DPS that you're doing from switching to STR will help you meet, or that your weaker self-heals are causing you to die (unlikely), or that you cannot keep aggro without STR gear (lol), there's zero reason to stack STR either.

[Bashum]

I've been running full melded forever, just because I'd rather not deal with either of the extremists :P