Tanks with lower ilvl are now more 'squishy' than before, in the sense that they take the same damage as they do with other accessories. i270 str gear lowers their max health, which is still more than enough to take any boss mechanic and dungeons comfortably as long as the healer does not want to afk for half of the pull. Every tank buster in Lak EX and Sas can be taken and still have over half of your hp available without trouble if you understand how to use your cooldowns as a tank.


The issue right now is SE is penalizing what is already the rarest role to fill by making the only benefit we get out of right sides as more healer insurance that does not at all help us do our jobs (hold emnity and pop cds for appropriate mechanics). STR helps dps 'dps', Mind helps healers 'mind', but Vit does not help us actually tank as no source of damage in 4.0 so far even begins to threaten a pool of 40K hp let alone 50K hp. And if future content does, then it does not begin to address the massive emnity issues this raises. Every ilvl tier, dps and healers will have 9 items increasing their generation of emnity while tanks will only have 5. What is the solution then? Keep bandaiding our emnity generating combos to generate more and more emnity while putting us in a position where we are spamming those combos and ignoring the interesting side of our classes and the rest of our mechanics? Or make the ninja a 100% necessary part of every raid team (just another type of band aid).