Thread: Translation of 3.2 Notes by BG

Originally Posted by Fue

More like stances are all going off gcd

I'd prefer that very much to the alternative. The way it's said indicates they want to return disadvantages to turning off tank stance though, and if Grit and Shield Oath had no GCD...I don't see any "disadvantage" to that at all, only "advantages" as it would be the same situation for DRK and PLD but better since they can use the tank stance on command. Whereas if a WAR has to use a GCD for Defiance, that would be a definite disadvantage, with the "advantage" being the bigger HP pool and access to IB, forcing WAR to think about it beforehand like DRK and PLD do currently instead of "whoop better switch for my Equilibrium or IB right quick".

I hope you're correct though and it's all stances off GCD.

EDIT: Slycer, the kind person at BG translating this also mentioned this:

"I took a quick look at Dengeki and it looks mostly the same as this one. The one major point that was in there that wasn't addressed in here was the change of main stat for tanks from STR to VIT. He says explicitly that a full VIT tank in 3.2 is going to do less damage than a full STR tank at the same item level from 3.15, but they are intentionally doing this to somewhat reduce a tank's maximum damage output relative to DPS jobs. He also implied that STR's effect will be nerfed to the point where full VIT will out-damage STR/VIT hybrid with the 3.2 specs. The interviewer asks how that will affect enmity where tanks already had some difficulty holding hate against high DPS and Yoshida said they were planning to do enmity adjustments to the defensive stances."

So basically, it seems like full VIT will be stronger than melded STR/VIT gear or the 3/2 split between VIT and STR gear, but less than pure STR gear, which is about what I expected. So while full STR tanks will see a damage nerf, folks that used melded gear, VIT gear or 3 to 2 on STR and VIT gear may actually see an increase in damage from full VIT.