Discussing tank stat priority in FC, confusion.

[Sapphidia]

3800 is really a bit low for the tonberry king. From what i gathered, the king hits for 1000 damage per stack when he does his stab, so a 4 stack would kill that tank and a 3 stack would take him lowish. The little tonberries hit for about 300 each. I think I had about 4200 on that fight when i started doing it and even that felt a bit risky at times as our DPS wasnt as high as it is now.

Strength on paper seems a wonderful stat - it helps threat, damage, block/parry amount... but reality it gives these benefits in such hugely low quantities that 30 strength in stats gives you next to zero noticeable difference (i saw figures saying that 30 strength at 50 equates to about 1% dps increase, and likely less than 1% block value because block comes in breakpoints of 50 strength). You wont see any real noticeable difference in DPS with 30 strength, and next to zero difference in mitigation.

As boring as it feels, pure Vit is the way to go for paladins. DPS will help on tonberry king for sure, but 30 vit on that tank will ensure he survives more stabs (and not just the stab - you have to take the occasional hit from a normal tonberry too). Almost every solid raiding tank now is realising that 30 Vit is the best option because there ARE encounters all over the place that throw in a huge big spike of damage on the tank, and the damage on Tonberry King is one of the first examples of this.

Sure, 30 Vit isnt a -huge- difference in HP, but it's enough, and it's far more of an impact on performance than some strength given the values we've seen the dataminers/testers/theorycrafters give. And your tank is a perfect example. He's under 4000 health. With 30 Vit, he'd be able to survive a hit from an entire extra stack of debuff. I can almost guarantee he'd notice next to zero differencein damage/threat/mitigation from losing the 30 strength too - I certainly noticed no difference in my damage/threat output when i respecced to pure Vit at 50.