Stat priorities for tanking

[BluexBird]

You can meld Direct Hit into everything that isn't an accessory. So there is no reason to ever bother with Determination, Tenacity, Critical Hit or Attack Speed melds because Direct Hit is so much better than all of them.

For your accessories, you go with Strength since it's a bigger damage boost. If you have the crafted ones, then put 1 Strength one and squeeze in extra Direct Hit.

The only real thing you should even bother debating about is which ilvl 340 pieces are better. For example, some people might look at the tank pants and wonder if the huge amount of Critical Hit is worth picking up despite the high skill speed, over the Determination/Tenacity counterpart.

Also, Tenacity currently doesn't contribute a significant amount to act as a form of mitigation. Meaning if you ended up dying to something without any extra Tenacity, you would have still also died WITH the extra Tenacity. Like maybe you'll survive an extra auto attack but that's it. lol