Quote Originally Posted by Magnedeus View Post
If so, what are tanks melding right now?
Tenacity is a Semi-Dead Stat.

In SOME non BiS situations where you have a lot of DET on your gear and are far away from the next CRT/DH Breakpoint TEN can potentially provide a higher damage bonus to you that stacking the same amount of DET or other stats.

In 90% of scenarios however (aside from 1 singular Tier 10 TEN materia for Warrior) it is strictly worse.

In most endgame content you dont "Need" the tenacity to survive, as either your mitigation was enough for you to survive, or the hit just straight up kills you regardless, since the actual difference is minimal at best.

This is further employed by the fact that More Damage Done = Less Damage Taken, and while for a tank it is not a Huge damage increase if it means that 1 mechanic less goes off, that is already worth it.

as to what we are melding, Depends on the Tank.

PLD, DRK & GNB all have the Same BiS (if you are interested they are on "The Balance") which melds CRIT>DH>DET ;
WAR has a slightly different BiS (meld wise), as he has guaranteed DH's and melds Crit>DET>TEN instead as it is a more consistent increase.

(Sidenote: there is a 2.40 / SKS Meld setup for WAR which is technically more Damage [by 2 DPS] but it is not optimal since some skills start to Clip.)