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

Originally Posted by FallenWings

Does the natural regen tick even happen during combat? lol

According to what I found online this afternoon, yes it does, but at a reduced % compared to the regen out of combat.

Originally Posted by FallenWings

/slapsforehead DERP. Survivability!

lol, I like survivability. It's fun to still be there when the dust settles and poke the boss again when he thinks he just squished you.

Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Since HP regen scales off max HP, more VIT will equal more HP regenerated per tick. It will also affect the strength of StoneSkin. I'm just wondering what other impacts a larger HP pool can have beyond the obvious gain in HP.

The Paladin's Divine Veil will shield others for more going from ~1600 hp to ~2100 hp at i210 if the shield % stays at 10% Paladin's hp. A 30% increase is nothing to sneeze at.

Having a certain threshold of health is only good for burst damage. Such as crits, tanks killers, millions of mobs mauling on your face at once. It doesn't mitigate damage at all. It increases survival rate yes. Health is great for raw damage tho.

They just said on Duty Commenced that if you have str accessories they hope you have or get vit ones because you will do less damage if you use the str ones in 3.2. Makes me think the vit attack modifier will be higher then the str one.

I think STR will still be a viable option. They can't really go too far with this because the left side gear has both STR and VIT. They said that both stats would have a weight in attack power so it has to be some sort of fraction of a sum for each. They end result of attack power will probably be X% on VIT, Y% on STR, with a total that lands close to what we already have right now. So, depending on the weight VIT and STR gets, we can expect that STR accessories may still have their role depending on what other stat they have. For example, if a STR accessory has Determination and would allow the tank to reach minimum Accuracy, it probably will end up being an excellent choice over the Vit+Parry+Skill Speed in the same slot.

I think it's going to be very interesting to play around with different pieces of a same tier + crafted accessories. The BiS won't be as obvious anymore.

Originally Posted by Instrumentality

Edit: In other words, unless they are completely straight up lying, strength will be non-viable.

I'm gonna go with that because I obviously haven't seen the sources your refering to. But I think It's got to be more complicated then just a straight up stat swap because that puts tanks in a very unique and possibly game-bending (short of saying game-breaking) situation.

Tanks will then become the only class to receive a DIRECT buff to their raw attack power from food items? It it's really like what you describe (and I'm not saying it's not, i'm just saying I still skeptical), an almond cream croissant would be the exact equivalent of a food that would grant 30 STR points? ...that seems unlikely doesn't it? While all other classes only benefit indirect effects (Spell Speed, Skill Speed, Crit, Det...) tanks would get a DIRECT buff? Now imagine warriors eating Steamed Staves... ? Wouldn't that bend the game even just a little?

Originally Posted by Instrumentality

This episode of Duty Commenced posted yesterday.

They explicitly say they are 'switching from strength'.

Today's Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVII Digest backs this up also:

Originally Posted by Cherzy

The method by which physical attack power is calculated for tank roles will be adjusted, and tanks will no longer need to allocate points into strength or use strength accessories. From Patch 3.2 onward, allocating points to vitality will help tanks deal more damage. Because of this change, you'll be dealing less damage if you’re using strength accessories after the patch, so please have your vitality accessories ready.

Did they mention reworking parry?