"Changing Tank Damage Calculation"

[Giantbane]

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

It's a universal longevity stat that you're talking about ret-conning into a damage stat. Every class is set up with damage stat + vit + secondaries on their gear, unifying that for tanks would make them unique, but not in any kind of good way.

It's just nice to feel like the game is built out of consistent systems and rules that were well thought out. VIT scaling damage breaks from existing rules in a way that feels cheap and tacked on and degrades the product for some people. Is it functional? Of course, but why blemish a perfectly good system by doing haphazard things when you don't have to?

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.

Overpowered is relative. And you don't necessarily have to add all or any VIT to the left side to even make it work, that's just the most basic solution. If they make things hit tanks harder, then the VIT becomes necessary and it's not a big deal. If they just add 1-2 more HP per VIT to 60 tanks, then you get the same effect without needing to touch the left side VIT values. Or you can balance boss damage output around existing VIT levels as if tanks were wearing no right side VIT jewelry. All existing fending jewelry will convert VIT to STR. Jewelry will have a melded right side cap of 0 VIT, which completely solves the melding problem without any need for special rules about which type of materia can be melded onto what.

And if they think full right side STR is too much DMG for tanks, they can muck with damage & enmity values to their hearts content.

Now that I think about it, it's probably the most straightforward solution to the whole matter.