Tenacity

[Thamorian]

Ignore em bro. I've melded Tenacity for as long as I can remember and have Tanked Savage and countless EX Primals without any issues at all. There's a lot of poisonous individuals and extremists who play this game, just gonna tune em out

No one has ever said that you can't clear Savage or Ex with tenacity melds in the history of ever. Problem with tenacity is though does not give a big enough boost to defence and offence combined to make it worthwhile for most people.

Some good reads about tenacity can be found in a couple reddit posts from this year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...e_breakpoints/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...to_be_avoided/ (the comments sections)

And a quote with a couple good questions:

• Will it reduce incoming damage to the point where healers gain enough GCDs to offset my loss in personal DPS?
  
• Will it reduce damage enough to stop me from dying?

I would go for tenacity myself if I found it worth it but instead I meld DH and Crit to help meet DPS checks since a lot of random DPS can't play their jobs at even a decent level as indicated by the boss hitting enrage. Most fights don't have difficult DPS checks to make if all the DPS played at a decent level but most random parties will have one (maybe two if lucky) superb DPS while the other DPS will have far below acceptable DPS levels. Been a fair few fight where we barely beat the boss by the skin of our teeth, a few times actually party wiping as we killed the boss but still counted.