Materia / secondary stats for ShB tanks?

[SleepyNeko]

Necroed no longer relevant stat posts.

[Malmstrom]

Necroed no longer relevant stat posts.

Dizoh, I have been bamboozled.

[ReviaInfantry]

DH is not on any tank gear so forget that. Im a true tank, sks to get 5 castings off then all tenecity. I got 3208 right now. You all can be fake dps, i'll stay a tank.

Wait so WAR is all about beefy dps and Viking powah is a lie?

I agree no DH meld tho screw that stat

[Warskull]

Is there any consensus or argument for anything other than crit right now?

Or is the order of priority for secondary stats still Crit, DHit? I seem to have read somewhere that the idea of SkS GNB turned out to be bad. Any new perspectives?

Materia priorities vary based on the tank so it is difficult to give you a hard rule.

Skillspeed is a great DPS increase up to a point. Each tank has their own GCD sweet spot. The exception is Paladins who usually don't add any skill speed beyond what they incidentally pick up.

Direct hit tends to give you the best point for point damage increase, but it is a lot weaker on warriors due to guaranteed crits/directs. It only ups your direct hit chance.

Critical Hit is usually weaker than direct hit, but preferable on a warrior because they have skills that can guarantee direct hits and critical hits. Critical hit increases your critical hit chance and critical hit damage. So critical hit benefits you on your guaranteed crit skills as warrior.

Determination is a reliable across the board damage increase because it is a straight damage, but probably less than direct hit or critical hit. Thing is, if you play multiple tanks it is a reliable damage increase on every tank. Great for a cross tank set if you truly play a bunch of different tanks.

Tenacity is determination's brother and very underappreciated. It functions like determination giving a straight buff to your damage. This damage buff is smaller than determination, but in return you also get a small damage reduction. This takes a little pressure off your healers and can save your life. It is like a little bit of a safety net. You'll never see it on a best in slot list because it is the worst thing you can slot for damage aside from slotting a completely irrelevant stat. However, it will occasionally save your life and in turn have a huge impact on that run. Great for progression or party finder raiding, when your team is unreliable.

Also note that when most people talk stats they are talking about end game raiding with a reliable team. For example tenacity's damage reduction is more valuable in a dungeon when you are doing wall to wall pulls. Most people simply to do not optimize for dungeons because you can outgear dungeons. You can't outgear the top savage raid.

You really need to do your research because there is way more to this that can be conveyed in a single post. If you do not want to do your research just slot in a few skill speed materia and a bunch of determination. It won't be optimal, but you can't screw it up.