Why Crit for tanks?

[Espon]

I think a neat idea to make Tenacity actually useful would be to give dungeon and raid bosses the chance to crit with auto-attacks for like +200% damage, with Tenacity reducing the chance of crits landing on the tank, in addition to its current effects.

Keep the required amount to reach crit immunity consistent throughout the expansion (like say 2400 for Dawntrail) so that going back to previous tiers doesn't feel like you're completely wasting stats. As your ilvl goes up, it just means you can afford to go after more pieces that lack Tenacity or not meld as much of it.

And for more daring players that trust their healers to keep them alive, the option of going for more DPS is still there in exchange for survivability.

[Burmecia]

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[Qyoon]

because the only thing that matter in this game, whatever your role is, is all about doing damage.

[Zakuyia]

To the op.

There are three types of mitigation in this game

Tank dps and healer shields

Support skills like arms length

And finally your dps. More damage you do faster things die.

[Derio]

Because crit not only affects damage but the crit rate of your self healing. All tanks have some form of self healing. For tenacity to be worth it, it would have to be much greater value.

[Rithy255]

Because crit not only affects damage but the crit rate of your self healing. All tanks have some form of self healing. For tenacity to be worth it, it would have to be much greater value.

No one picks crit or direct hit for self healing though they pick it for damage.

[ThurinTurambar]

So if you're doing stuff with party, damage is always the option, which means crit has prio and after that its going for dh/det balance.

However if you were to do solo challenges, i believe tenacity is actually the best option.

[Mikey_R]

So if you're doing stuff with party, damage is always the option, which means crit has prio and after that its going for dh/det balance.

However if you were to do solo challenges, i believe tenacity is actually the best option.

Tenacity scales so slowly, you would still be better off with your normal melds. The mitigation you have is going to be more than enough to cover what you need and in most cases, you do still want to win as fast as possible.

[Seku]

Because the game doesn't throw anything at tanks that requires them to take defensive stats so killing faster is the best way to go. Can't really think of any mechanics in recent history that has wiped the group due to them not having enough HP / defense, but there are multiple accounts showing how groups wipe to enrages due to not having enough DPS.

Reason 2 is that no mechanics require additional defense outside of the standard tool kit a job has.

Reason 3 is that the rule of having enough defense and then put the rest into offensive stats is and probably will always be a thing. The amount of defense directly correlates to the amount of forced damage you take and the mistakes you make. Can be applied to just about any game that has these stats. The same can be said for accuracy, even though this stat no longer exists

[PercibelTheren]

The goal isn't to deal more damage than a DPS. The goal is to contribute as much damage as possible because, unless fights start being designed differently, damage reigns supreme. The faster you kill a boss, the better.

Besides, tank DPS isn't as low as one might expect. Some jobs like Dancer barely do more.