Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Interesting question then. Provided you can't skip VIT acc and tank stance at the same time, is it better to be a VIT tank in DPS stance or a STR tank in tank stance ?
That's actually going to need some testing, assuming you can't have both. The dps difference between full vit accs vs full str accs (i270) is around 20%, which is around the difference between tank dps in and out of tank stance.

However I don't think it'll be relevant since you probably can get away with having both if you're good with managing cds, and have good co-tank and healers (ofc with pugs it'll vary and you probably want to have as much safety net as you can). Even if we need more catering from the healers or dps (with more heals, coordinated mitigation skills etc) it might actually be worth it over the huge dps difference of using vit accs unless the healers need to heal you like twice as much, which isn't the case at least in susano/lakshmi ex, as tested by some of my friends. Then again, depending on how much damage we're going to take in the new savage raids this may change. If we're taking so much damage that the vit accs are necessary to survive then we'll wear them.


Quote Originally Posted by Brannigan View Post
I think they'll probably end up hard locking old accessories. There's no real reason not to.
That's what I think they'd do too. Unless they change their mind on the dmg scaling again.