Tank Mitigation vs Tank DPS.

[RareItems]

You're right, if you're melding tenacity, you are probably not using the other meld slots for the best possible stat return you can meld, you would be going with more skillspeed or piety.

Actually i Melded Tenacity, then Skillspeed, then Crit on my PLD tank gear. Crit 1999, Det 1857, Direct Hit 418, Skillspeed 2227, Tenacity 3214. Thx to all the ppl selling cheap tier 7 Tenacity/Skillspeed materia lol.

60k Clemencies are nice. 10k Tankbusters is nice too.

[ForteNightshade]

Actually i Melded Tenacity, then Skillspeed, then Crit on my PLD tank gear. Crit 1999, Det 1857, Direct Hit 418, Skillspeed 2227, Tenacity 3214. Thx to all the ppl selling cheap tier 7 Tenacity/Skillspeed materia lol.

60k Clemencies are nice. 10k Tankbusters is nice too.

... and this alone epitomizes why you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. PLD hates Skill Speed because it mis-aligns Fight or Flight. You want only a set amount—current bis being 1133—then you never touch the stat again. As for that 10k tankbuster. Tenacity makes absolutely zero relevant difference. You'll use the same cooldowns, your heal with use the same heals. All that changes is you're doing less damage by foolishly gimping yourself out of pure stubbornness. You can decry "raid elitists" all you fancy but theorycrafters actually put in the work to determine how each stat benefits us. What have you done? Screamed on a forum how right you are with zero evidence to support your feelscraft nonsense and somehow insist a meld set build for Savage or Ultimate content will be inferior in a dungeon—you know, that mindlessly brain dead easy content.

[Jade3173]

So...I do meld tenacity on my tanks for a couple of reasons. First and foremost is that the toughest content I ever take my tanks into is Normal Mode Raids where that little extra damage from DH over Ten isn't going to really matter in that run. I do this knowing that it's less useful but I'm cheap and whatever DH materia I get goes into my DPS classes since I tend to play more than one type and really only DNC at the moment gets perfectly melded since it's the class that'll be doing all the hard stuff where that 1% increase will matter. Lastly, I'm cheap and lazy since I know that Normal Mode Raids don't need that extra boost.

If you're taking your tank into EX/Savage level content as your main class that you want to do perfectly, then yes, avoid Tenacity, suck it up and buy the more expensive DH materia, do roulettes for the materia, do your daily hunts and kill any A/S ranks that appear to help offset costs of buying.