Quote Originally Posted by aleph_null View Post
The builds he linked have 360-ish difference in tenacity, which is not even 2% difference in mitigation. Stop assuming every build that doesn't prioritize tenacity to be a build that avoids tenacity. Some of the sets that I'm considering for my end game this tier have like 1.5k tenacity while melding DH on every slot.
Well if we're going to compare Tenacity to other stats, we need to take both extremes.
Here's are the gears sets I'm referring to:
- Tenacity BiS: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/11OWT
- Non Tenacity BiS (aka, avoid tenacity like the pest): http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/11OWO

Tenacity being the lowest DPS scaling stat, those 2 builds are the highest dps variance you can get and on those sets the overall trade off is ~1.5% DPS increase vs. ~5.5% mitigation.
Whether it's a good or bad trade off, that's everyone's personal decision but neither options make significant difference in anyway where one is "right", the other is "wrong".

DH is good, Tenacity is slightly less good for DPS.
There is no trash substats nor is there a king substat for tanks. Or you might as well call every substat garbage since they all scale within a tiny margin.
A truly garbage stat is spellspeed on RDM because 60% of your gcd's aren't affected by it. Tenacity is nowhere in that realm.