SE Needs to put VIT back into our Damage Modifier

[Faytte]

Its sad cause, the way to deal with this now is to use i270 str accessories and meld some vit on them. You lose hp but the loss in dps and threat from these 'changes' is far to immense.

They should frankly, just put str on fending accessories (in addition to vit) and make them tank only. Would solve the issues.

[Pomo]

Its sad cause, the way to deal with this now is to use i270 str accessories and meld some vit on them. You lose hp but the loss in dps and threat from these 'changes' is far to immense.

They should frankly, just put str on fending accessories (in addition to vit) and make them tank only. Would solve the issues.

They should just go back to the previous change to tank damage. That is, the vit/str split was fine even though it was a nerf to old tank dps. It was still a lot better than what they did with the SB tank damage change given that we can no longer slot slaying pieces post-sb.

[Marxam]

Is the damage modifier still .9 for tanks? or is it 1:1 now that they removed the vit/str split? I'm currently running with some 270 slaying accessories, basically anything with no tenacity or sks and the difference in holding hate is much more noticeable. I only need to Steel Cyclone once and maybe overpower once when new adds spawn to hold hate. Before I was using all the 310 vit accessories and I find myself spamming overpower far more often and losing hate much more easily. Tanking as war is much more stressful than it needs to be and that makes it less fun to play the job.

[Falar]

It is 1:1 on STR now.

Whatever your STR is, your attack power is.

Vitality just gives hp.

[AziraSyuren]

It's really stupid that we have to compromise the point of our role in order to optimize our DPS when we didn't have to before. It's especially grating because they fixed that very problem on healers the exact same time they broke it again for tanks.

It'd be one thing if we could use the same accessories as everyone else. It's another thing entirely that we have to use outdated accessories to accomplish that; it's almost downright insulting. I don't even care about enmity generation that much, as it's the difference of one or two uses of our enmity combo at worst. I care about the fact that we're the only role that actually has to make sacrifices to optimize our damage output.

I'd honestly even settle for outright removing our ability to use the i270 strength accessories. I just hate feeling like I'm giving up something to perform my role the best I can.

This really needs to be fixed, although I'm only expecting a half-assed bandaid and a "please look forward to it " response to these complaints.

Then again, the vit:str split was quite obviously lazy too but ended up working out fine, so who knows.

[Jhett_Magnum]

You guys aren't looking big picture. In pathlch 4.2 vitality will get fixed, as SE will notice that tanks are holding on to strength accessories. Then around 4.4 SE will acknowledge that tenacity is a bad stat that tanks are avoiding and will promise to look into it. Then they will announce that in 5.0 tenacity will be removed and a new shiny tanks stat will take its place. Of course they will break str/vit again, and the new stat will also be garbage. Think of the thrills. And repeat.

Ok so that's about a year and a half from now and some of us don't want to wait.

[Wolfas]

Ok so that's about a year and a half from now and some of us don't want to wait.

You said all. We didn't want to got a fix so long than healer got it the previous year.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

Ok so that's about a year and a half from now and some of us don't want to wait.

I don't know how I could have presented my sarcasm more than I did. Maybe later when I'm not on phone I'll add some [sarcasm] [/sarcasm] to book end the paragraph.