"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

I feel like there's a lot of irrational, borderline-emotional attachment to STR in this thread. If they make our damage scale off VIT and remove STR from our gear are people actually going to be bent out of shape about that? o.o

I wouldn't care if our damage scaled of fucking Parry as long as that stat is on our gear and we can roll need on it. If the stats and calculations are going to change next patch I think people should be preparing to shed their conceptions about what are good and bad stats now before their feelings get hurt in 3.2. No matter what, its not going to change the way our jobs play or affect any of the mechanics of those jobs. I dunno why people are infatuated with having to gear up with stuff you can't need on, I'm certainly fine with that changing and us tanks having a uniform DPS floor/ceiling based on skill and not whether we're wearing our gear or the DPS's gear.

I have an irrational and borderline attachment on my damage stat being on my right side gear.
(I also want to roll need on it). My personal infatuation with gearing up on things I cannot need on is related to this. What the stat actually is (parry/vit/#of mininons) I don’t care, so long as I atleast have the option to put this on right side gear.

Syzygian is right. Come 3.2 I will stack as much of my damage stat as possible. My game play will not change, I will still be as aggressive as I can be, while gearing up the best possible way. Just as I have always strived to do.

@Talith – Your words are too kind. I enjoy the potential options this adjustment could generate, tbh I didn’t think about the tank wearing disciple of war gear at low levels, probably because in the last year, I have seen this once - day 2 of 3.0 with a level 30 DRK. (I was healing, cuz everybody was playing DRK that week)

And Syz, I agree the work wouldn’t be impossible, I just assume it’s a matter of time/available resources in combination with the fact that this will be done on an even numbered patch bringing new raid and so on.

[Shinkyo]

What the stat actually is (parry/vit/#of mininons) I don’t care, so long as I atleast have the option to put this on right side gear.
Come 3.2 I will stack as much of my damage stat as possible. My game play will not change, I will still be as aggressive as I can be, while gearing up the best possible way. Just as I have always strived to do.

This is very true, no one will change their play style.
The question is whether tanks will still need to compromise VIT vs whatever stat to be most effective... But I get the feeling that SE doesn't like that design.

I think aggressive tanking should be driven more by play style rather gear so I'm totaly fine with damage scaling off VIT. I just don't want my current pentamelded acc go to waste considering the amount of gils I poured into it...