Strength Tanks

[Ironos]

It still kinda is. But it makes me wonder how the devs tested alex savage originally. Did their tanks wear 190 alex nm fending accessories? 150 crafted accessories melded with str? A mix of vit and str alex 190 accessories? Did they have the whm/ast solo heal with a sch dps'ing? Just makes me curious.

I remember a while back, when they were previewing 3.1, there was a DRK with some ~21k health in a dev screenshot and everyone was like "Oh my god, devs use Fending? Git gud." I still think the devs intended on tanks using fending primarily, only using slaying to bridge the dps gap if the need arose. I don't think they anticipated people completely phasing out Fending and treating vit like a plague.

[whiskeybravo]

I remember a while back, when they were previewing 3.1, there was a DRK with some ~21k health in a dev screenshot and everyone was like "Oh my god, devs use Fending? Git gud." I still think the devs intended on tanks using fending primarily, only using slaying to bridge the dps gap if the need arose. I don't think they anticipated people completely phasing out Fending and treating vit like a plague.

Ah. So the real reason tanks wear str and healers dps is to carry the dps. If SE could do it in fending then we could to, right? :P

[Ironos]

Ah. So the real reason tanks wear str and healers dps is to carry the dps. If SE could do it in fending then we could to, right? :P

Ahaha, I'm making no so such claims. I think that's what SE thinks it's like, and they also thought the current tier of Savage was overtuned a bit, supporting that thought. We also don't really know what SE's intended ilvl for Savage was, because I've seen some people saying anything over ilvl ~195 is overgearing it. I don't really know, because I haven't bothered to do anything past A1S.

[Starbirth]

I remember a while back, when they were previewing 3.1, there was a DRK with some ~21k health in a dev screenshot and everyone was like "Oh my god, devs use Fending? Git gud." I still think the devs intended on tanks using fending primarily, only using slaying to bridge the dps gap if the need arose. I don't think they anticipated people completely phasing out Fending and treating vit like a plague.

I find most devs that test out their game think like devs when they should think like a player. This is why a large majority of imbalances exist when a game or patch launches.