This is my first time having leveled a tank class and I am having a blast tanking in SHB. And as such I have come across some things that I found odd to me and would love a bit of an explanation a bit.

As a tank should I focus getting food and Materia to focus on my dps or mitigation?

2 things and prompted me to ask. I was watching some videos where they were doing savage content and the person in the video said that tanks and healers for their FC were last in the rotation to get gear to help improve the group. I thought. "Isn't survivability more important?" I took a step back and though that I came from idea of what raid groups do in WoW. For those who may not know. Mythic raiders, before personal loot was a thing, built a spread sheet of all the gear for that tier and analyzed who would benefited more from what. but almost always tier sets were prioritized with healers and tanks first to make survival priority over speed of clearing.

The second thing was that I saw in the forums that Healing and mitigation is not as prevalent need because of the need to transition phases faster means more breaks in between some situations. And I can see that point when you encounter cinematic like attacks. Visually its amazing but you do see that tanks and healers literally do get a moment to just breath. Far more than you do in WoW. Add on to the fact that in down time for healers it is better for the group to sneak in a dps spell or 2.

I would appreciate the advice because IF I am dropping Gil on tenacity Materia I would like to know if I am really using it to help progress in harder content.

Thanks.