"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[Einheri]

They could just change vit into str on fending. They used to roll lock striking and maiming for drg/mnk. Now everyone can be happy and its barely any work.

again I expect no changes to gear just a reevaluation of coefficients and potency.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

They could just change vit into str on fending. They used to roll lock striking and maiming for drg/mnk. Now everyone can be happy and its barely any work.

again I expect no changes to gear just a reevaluation of coefficients and potency.

Why not just allow tanks to roll need on present slaying accessories? I don't see that happening, especially since SE said that they were changing tank damage calculations. (Don't recall SE mentioning anything about DRG/MNK, but hey, I've been wrong before)

[Einheri]

Like the old maiming vs striking roll locks, it was to spread loot. A drg and monk didn't necessarily have the BIS as the item they were allowed to roll need on.

What do you mean especially because they said damage calculations? All that means is they are going to change the damage formulas and threat modifiers to balance tank dps. What makes you think it would be anything more?

(1(str(.456)+det(.0013)))(potency/(skillspeed(.0956)(3)))

You change any of the coefficients you change the damage formula. this is what they will adjust to balance tank dps.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

I'm not convinced that SE would have bothered saying anything at all if they didn't intend to adjust (in some form) what str means to tank damage. If they fiddle with the sub stats and reduce what the str multiplier is, without doing something else, tanks will still stack str, roll on dps accessories, meld str as much as possible. In essence, nothing will really change. Tanks will use vit to the point of survivability and then stack str. EXACTLY LIKE IT IS NOW.

Those numbers are also player theory crafted, not announced by SE. Dervy even stated that despite his best work for 2.0, there were things he still got wrong on stat weights. Why would SE bother saying anything, months in advance, if they decided to tweak something as small as what you propose? Something that minor would be relayed to us a week or two before patch.