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

[SyzzleSpark]

I wonder at what point mitigation would magically flip over to being goid for those tenacity haters. 20%? 50%? Do these people not bother using mitigation cooldowns for anything other than tankbusters? It's a truly sad state of the game if tanks are literally just a worse dps whose only role is to survive a tank buster that happens every minute or so. Who cares about aggro then, just provoke and use mitigation cooldown when it happens.

I'm also amused at ppl that think extra mitigation might matter for first kills but not for farm, yet think that extra dps matters for farming.

I mean, if you need Tenacity, that's fine, stack it. But frankly you're better off just learning to manage your defensive CDs better and ending the fight in a more expedient fashion. Don't pretend like there is some defensive BiS out there, because there isn't. BiS = damage. That's what the "best" in best in slot means. Best for damage.

The way you describe tanks in the "sad state" of this game is actually the way we are intended to work; every job in this game is a damage-dealer of some sort. The difference is that tanks and healers have a more simplified, but not less important, DPS role/rotation to accommodate their tanking/healing responsibilities.

Once you overgear farm content extra mitigation actually doesn't matter because its not saving anything. Healing will become more potent as healer's DPS scales with their healing, and your VIT/Def/mDef also continually rise, overtaking whatever Tenacity gains you utilized to get a first clear. So more mitigation beyond that is fluff and not helping you farm. DPS helps you farm. You clear faster, and thus can get more clears per investment of time. This really should be common sense.

Like I said, if you wanna stack tenacity that's fine, but sticking your nose up at people seeking to maximize their performance like you're some enlightened authority on the topic ain't fooling anyone.