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

[Syzygian]

I want to see what happens if VIT is weighted high enough over STR that it'll be a DPS loss to switch a parry VIT piece for a crit/det STR piece or something. Wouldn't that be some shit? Some tanks might have a full-on meltdown.

[Instrumentality]

I want to see what happens if VIT is weighted high enough over STR that it'll be a DPS loss to switch a parry VIT piece for a crit/det STR piece or something. Wouldn't that be some shit? Some tanks might have a full-on meltdown.

This is actually what I expect to happen. If they do it the way I think they will having a strength piece on at all should result in an immediate and notable dps loss.

Basically I want strength to become a secondary type of determination for tanks in how 'effective' it is (that is, to say, not at all compared to a main stat).

[Launched]

I want to see what happens if VIT is weighted high enough over STR that it'll be a DPS loss to switch a parry VIT piece for a crit/det STR piece or something. Wouldn't that be some shit? Some tanks might have a full-on meltdown.

People will use the piece in that slot that doesn't have parry, or the piece that has less parry if both of them do. Just like we've been doing with left side gear for a long time.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

People will use the piece in that slot that doesn't have parry, or the piece that has less parry if both of them do. Just like we've been doing with left side gear for a long time.

If SE drops the value of STR to being more than 5% weaker than VIT as part of the damage stat, you are going to be using the VIT piece the majority of the time. (there is math on pg 14 of this thread)

What we are going to actually need are people who have both sets of gear to crunch some numbers both before patch (for a baseline), and after patch in full str then full fending (and maybe in no rt side gear or dex gear to measure the split between the 3 potential damage tiers. Of course there are also changes coming to PLD, so that will be a variable that will be difficult to measure for in numbers between patches. (possible changes to DRK, I doubt anything will be done to WAR )

I personally don't have a 3rd set of accessories, and being on console, I am going to have to ask my labradoodle to break out her abacus again...