Why No Melds?

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Except you know SpS, CRIT or DET...
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People being so anal about not melding but then complaining about how they should have Vit melded is just mind boggling. The standard rule for HP is you don't get hit by avoidable stuff.

VIT melds have already proven themselves effective during FCoB early progression to cheese gear checks and mechanics. While I don't personally use them, with the amount of raid wide unavoidable AoE going out in even the normal mode raids, an extra 800 HP could be the dealmaker between giving a healer time to heal you, and being forced to res with weakness, especially if the healers fall behind for whatever reason.

In a static or having everyone on voice chats then yes sps/crit/det are better but in pugs I find 3k more hp is greater that .08 sec faster cast time ... For the time when someone makes a mistake or is uncoordinated. When those mistakes happen 1 death will totally erase everything you get from other melds

Case in point: If it prevents a death, it's still an indirect dps gain. Being dead is the biggest dps loss in the game, even if you ignore the 15% weakness.