"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[Syzygian]

VIT scaling would be goofy.

I somehow feel like this isn't an effective argument.

Probably best to just strip all VIT off right side equipment, add it to the left side equips and just have tanks use STR accessories.

That wouldn't be changing the calculations of anything, and if you mean literally taking all the VIT granted from full VIT right side and stacking it on top of all the VIT from right side, and then using STR accessories on top of that, that'd be pretty damn overpowered, like wearing full i210 VIT and STR simultaneously. I don't see that happening.

I think a good way to change the stat contribution would be to have Tank Damage based on both VIT + STR but with less weight on STR.
If we take the example of current gear and a 3:1 STR to VIT ratio in the damage calculation, we'd have:
- il210 Fending accessories would contribute 49 VIT in dmg
- ilvl150 pentamelded would contribute 29 VIT + (32/3 STR) = 39 primary stat in damage (which would be equivalent to an ilvl190 VIT accessory)

That way, VIT accessories are the clear winner for tanks but Pentamelded ones are still relevant as a stepping stone without being OP.

This would be fairly easy to implement and wouldn't require to completely revisit earlier gear.

I fail to see why this whole "revisiting" or "revising" earlier gear is certain to be some insurmountable hurdle. They added DEX to old MNK gear in 2.4, I'm fairly certain they could remove STR from our gear if they wished with minimal effort.

I'm not a fan of having this sort of half-measure half-baked damage-scales-off-VIT-but-a-little-bit-off-STR-too just to give the illusion that left side gear's STR would still have some sort of value when, at that point, we'd rather all that STR be VIT since it would be more damage.

Realistically, based on what they've said, they're almost certain to phase out STR make our damage scale off of something else. Even if we're dealing the same damage, it feels like people are going to be butthurt simply because the word "strength" won't be on their gear.