Quote Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur View Post
Doubt it. I suspect the changes to remove the Str/Dex effects on Parry and Block Strength/Rate were more an early (and misguided) attempt to kill the "Str over Vit" meta-game. A member of the design team may have erroneously though that tanks were going Str for the mitigation benefits rather than the damage benefits.
STR/DEX effects on parry was removed as 3.0 hit I believe. And the "STR > VIT" meta was mostly because tanks knew they didn't have to have huge HP pool and could get away with even full STR setup.