Thread: Live Letter 3.2 tank changes, vit effects tank attack

This will make runs alot quicker with Tanks hitting alot harder. Hopefully anyway. Guess I'll buy the rest of those vit accessories now. xD

Someone on reddit mentioned Tanks might be OP in PVP now. High HP pool and High damage. Wonder if that will happen.

Originally Posted by Nep_Nep

This will make runs alot quicker with Tanks hitting alot harder. Hopefully anyway. Guess I'll buy the rest of those vit accessories now. xD

Someone on reddit mentioned Tanks might be OP in PVP now. High HP pool and High damage. Wonder if that will happen.

healer in frontlines was saying that last night.. he/she is gonna enjoy squishy tanks for nows cause dreading tanks in next patch :P

And nothing of value was lost. Thanks, dev team. Maybe I'll try tanking more with 3.2 making it actually *about tanking* a bit more.

So... Are they going to adjust Parry as well? Because honestly that's the main reason I dislike VIT accessories...

Originally Posted by Nalien

So... Are they going to adjust Parry as well? Because honestly that's the main reason I dislike VIT accessories...

+1, Main reason that drove me to crafted fending/slaying acc's. Still not going to want if it has parry, just now I won't be able to freely swap it for a piece of slaying.

I have a feeling allot more DRKS are going to die from living dead with an SCH behind the wheel. p_p (PLEASE MY PUNY HEALS. EMERGENCY TACTICS CRIT ADLOOOOO)

I dont particularly mind STR Tanks...people just need to understand that if you go that route it affects how I heal. So dont pull two floors of mobs and then ask why I'm not in Cleric Stance DPSing the whole time.

I guess it all depends how much % wise its going to be vit based because "and as a result the effect of strength on physical attack potency will be reduced" still implies that str will be a part of the calculation.

So what like 2/3 Vit and 1/3 Str? In very basic terms that would mean you would have to have at least 1/3 of your str stat on top of your Vit to be doing the same amount of damage you were pre 3.2, I think... I hate math... Actually I think it more so depends on what your STR stat was before going all Vit, honestly IDK.

I hope someone who actually cares starts preparing some actual statistics on dmg now vs damage after patch without changing any stats for a rough -/+%. I would myself but I'm just lazy and am not on my war as much as drg.

Originally Posted by Mycow8me

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"From Patch 3.2 onwards, you’ll be safe using only vitality accessories as well as allocating everything to vitality as a tank. For everyone who is currently using strength accessories on their tanks, the damage will be lowered, so please prepare your vitality accessories ahead of time.""

The wording of that comment implies that with the changes being made you will not be using STR gear. Remember that Tank gear all offers more vitality than the gear of other classes. So even if the scaling per point on VIT is lower than STR, you get so much more VIT from VIT accessories vs STR from STR accessories that it will either even out or come out on top.

I wasn't trying to say STR is still worth it, I was trying to think in terms of how much %vit vs %str a person would need to remain at the same damage they are already doing with their current STR setups. I figured SE would do something along the lines of 2/3 vit and 1/3 str for the calculation at the lowest, I would prefer 4/5 Vit or higher. STR is not being removed completely only Reduced, hopefully to an extreme. Of course your going to do more damage using only vit accessories with a higher % vit in calculation.