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# Important stats by Roles

A little help to what stats you want to aim for depending on your game role.

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<summary>Stats for Tanks</summary>

Tanks should try to have **all of their defensive ratings**, and possibly **Power, Combat Advantage, Forte and Incoming Healing** match their TIL. Having some Accuracy would also help building aggro a bit more reliably, but it's less important than the other stats mentioned earlier.

The top priority stats to focus on to 90% are **Awareness** (first and foremost), then **Defense** (after Awareness but before every other stat), then **Critical Avoidance**, and **Deflect Stats** (starting with Deflect, then Deflect Severity, as you obtain the best returns when you cap Deflect at 90% when your Deflect Severity being 55%). Improving Power and Combat Advantage together would also help with building aggro. And improving **Incoming Healing** would help your healer.

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<summary>Stats for Healers</summary>

Healers should have **Power, Outgoing Healing, Critical Stats, Forte, Defense, and Awareness** match their TIL. Critical Avoidance and Incoming Healing would also help. All of the other stats are meaningless.

The top priority stats to focus on to 90% are **Power and Outgoing Healing** (together for best returns), then **Critical Stats** (together), and **Forte**, followed by Awareness and Defense.

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<summary>Stats for DPS</summary>

Out of the 15 stats, Damage Dealers should try to have **all of their offensive ratings, plus Defense, Awareness, and Forte**, match their TIL. Incoming Healing and Critical Avoidance shouldn't be neglected either. But all of the other stats do not matter.

The top priority stats to focus on to 90% are **Power** and **Combat Advantage**. Once these are capped, **Critical Stats** (with Critical Strike = Critical Severity for the best returns) and **Accuracy** are the next goal. If you can still increase your percentages after capping your offensive stats, then Awareness would be the one, followed by Defense.

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