Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
I agree. Trouble is so many tanks don't want to be tanky even if its handed to them on a platinum platter with 90% of the DPS they were just doing beforehand. Its clear and perfectly understandable to not allow tanks with so much HP to deal *as* much damage, and I'm totally prepared for/at peace with that. Whatever the damage ceiling is I'll still be hitting it and lovin' it.
I think this depends on one big thing, and I think it's why some tanks don't want to give up their damage for more VIT. If we are going to be given this surplus of health in exchange for a fraction of our damage output, we need to actually be taking damage that puts said health to good use. Currently, that's not the case, and that's a key reason why no one is stacking VIT in the first place - if you actually needed it then the STR meta wouldn't even exist, at least not in hardcore raiding. If damage remains the same, we just have all this random cushion health, tanking (ie staying in your DPS stance the whole time) remains the same, and now we just do less damage - so a flat nerf, as opposed to a trade off.

Hopefully SE has thought this through and will actually be ramping up the damage - I'd love to be back in tank stance again, IBing cleaves, scoffing off damage, stance dancing, the whole 9 yards. If we're just getting a repeat of what we have now only doing less damage, well... that's pretty disappointing, but I barely play the game anymore anyway so life goes on.