VIT will scale with attack power, STR will scale but not as much

[yondaimeflash]

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Sorry to disappoint you but no I don't forget to have grit on and darkness and the occasional Blood weapon when I need to I know how to tank and not once have I ever had a healer complain ive in fact been given compliments on my Str tanking and holding big groups of Aoe's pulls

[Jpec07]

Sorry to disappoint you but no I don't forget to have grit on and darkness and the occasional Blood weapon when I need to I know how to tank and not once have I ever had a healer complain ive in fact been given compliments on my Str tanking and holding big groups of Aoe's pulls

Syz never said you did? The point of Syz' post wasn't to say that Strength tanks are inherently inferior to Vitality tanks, it was to say that the divide between them has caused more tension in the community than perhaps anything else. I've never ever seen a character of another class be berated for their choice of gear, because it's incredibly straightforward. However, for tanks, it's a no-win scenario - regardless of which set you use, you run the risk of having someone call you a bad player and tell you you're doing it wrong and need to git gud - based solely on gear. And the tension is a huge problem, because it belittles people based on gear, not on skill. Instead of berating a tank who doesn't use any cooldowns (even on big pulls), people berate tanks because they have too much HP. And that's not okay.

That entire discussion, and the insult that you perceived (that wasn't there), is going away. By scaling tank AP with Vit, they're essentially uniting the two sides of the community under the same gearing goal: aggressive tanks want more Vitality because it will make them hit harder, and defensive tanks want more Vitality because it lets them soak more damage. The "choice" that everyone seems so attached to was never really there, because no matter what you "chose," it was never the right thing by other people's standards.