Tenacity proven better? (BiS for tanks?) Gear Stat Calc

[aleph_null]

I'll gladly trade that 1% dps increase for 5.5% mitigation but that's a personal opinion.

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.

I agree with this.

Checking FFLogs for you Dizzy, shows a clear of o3s (congrats btw). During the kill you took 1.03million as the OT. Going to apply numbers of the penta meld DH BiS that you preferred. It's just shy of 8% mitigation, so I rounded up to 8%. Total damage you would have taken without mitigation would have been around 1,112,400. With an estimated 8% mitigation, it would have put you around the 1.03mil listed. If you had the max penta Tenacity build (10.5% mitigation and bonus heals), you would have only taken 995,598 damage. A difference of 34,402. Not a huge amount I would admit, but you would only gain .73% bonus in damage (using the DH build) while taking the extra damage (due to lack of Tenacity). I didn't run damage numbers because we aren't talking about those, you are debating the mitigation is pointless. Damage numbers would be an even more minuscule difference. These numbers don't even take into account the extra you would have received from each heal, further granting your healers more potential time to get extra DPS from their rotations.

The 30k-ish less damage he'd take would be over a 11 min encounter, which translates to like 50 dmg taken per sec. Over a gcd (2.5s) that's only 125 less dmg taken per gcd. That's nowhere near enough to allow "extra healer dps." I'm not saying you should avoid tenacity, but saying tenacity build would increase healer dps is questionable at best, unless the "dps" BiS gear has like 2k less tenacity than the tenacity build or something.