Question to WARs with BiS

[Shinkyo]

Snip.

So true.
Gearing tanks in SB is really boring since the dps variance of a bis and shit build doesn't even fully compensate the natural rng on damage calculation.

[Da_best]

Personally I prefer the Strength on the left and Direct Hit on the Right. When the new gear comes out I think full tenacity will be the Meta.

[ArianeEwah]

Personally I prefer the Strength on the left and Direct Hit on the Right. When the new gear comes out I think full tenacity will be the Meta.

Every item on the left side has strength in it, and maxed out, too. I don't understand what you want to tell us here.

DH on the right? Are you saying, you don't meld STR VI into your accessories, but secondary stats? STR is your PRIMARY stat, which means you should 'primary' meld STR into your gear - if possible.

b@Topic: There isn't really something like BiS (except crafted acc). Every gear has its benefits and downsides. I've looked into some gear comps from 'the best DPS' tanks on fflogs and nearly everyone has their own comp. They just optimized SkS for their style and everything else is insignificant. The only difference may lie in your mitigation affected by Tenacity.

[Felorr]

I'm reviving this thread with two builds I've settled on:

Max Det Build:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13CEX
2148 STR, 1140 DH, 1000 Crit, 1756 Det, 952 SkS (2.41 gcd), 1119 Ten
(some of my accessories have Det V's in place of DH V's, I couldn't be bothered to spend 50k gil for 5% chance to meld on some of those final slots.)

Max Crit Build:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13BPK
2148 STR, 1140 DH, 1550 Crit, 1225 Det, 1032 SkS (2.39 gcd), 1010 Ten
(some of my accessories have Det V's in place of DH V's, I couldn't be bothered to spend 50k gil for 5% chance to meld on some of those final slots.)

My crit build hits the 1032 SkS breakpoint exactly, knocking the global down to 2.39
The crit build actually shifts 19 points of substats from from TEN into Crit/DET, as well as 80 substat points of TEN into SkS to meet the next breakpoint. In theory, the higher crit build should be better in running it in the current speed run meta (Litany, Chain, bardsongs).

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Every item on the left side has strength in it, and maxed out, too. I don't understand what you want to tell us here.

DH on the right? Are you saying, you don't meld STR VI into your accessories, but secondary stats? STR is your PRIMARY stat, which means you should 'primary' meld STR into your gear - if possible.

b@Topic: There isn't really something like BiS (except crafted acc). Every gear has its benefits and downsides. I've looked into some gear comps from 'the best DPS' tanks on fflogs and nearly everyone has their own comp. They just optimized SkS for their style and everything else is insignificant. The only difference may lie in your mitigation affected by Tenacity.

I assume they got the left and right flipped, since DH6 down the line on the left + STR6 down the line on the right for guaranteed slots is what's the norm.