Quote Originally Posted by Valknut View Post
Someone mentioned early on in EW that melding an gearing tenacity was around 8% less damage taken. As a low end content player, that seemed like a significant amount and I have geared that way ever since.

Has it ever helped me? No idea

Would DPS Materia have ever helped me get faster clears? Very likely not in PUGS

Would be nice to see the difference of Direct hit to Tenacity in the main post. Best case senario and all. Just so us less HC players could see what the big difference is.
8% might be significant if this were a different mmo, one where tanks would take constant damage and healing became a battle of attrition, alas that is not a thing in XIV.
And those 8% require a massive investment into Tenacity to the point of neglecting every other substat.

Unfortunately CBU3 refuses to give us accurate % values for stats in the actual game, so all I can do is link you to Akhmorning for info on stat scaling and % values.
https://www.akhmorning.com/allagan-s...stats-overview