To be honest, I'd be more interested in the atk- than the def+. Like I said, I just want it for skilling up. XD

And no, I don't care about being the best. As long as I'm not doing a bad job, I'm fine. My merits are far from being capped (well, not far, but there's still plenty I could spend I guess), simply because I don't do as much that generates exp. My skilling up has almost all been done outside Abyssea, I've only farmed Dark Rings once (not for very long either), I don't fight NMs very often (just when I catch a shout for seals or abyssites/atma that I want), and I almost never join PTs for exp/cruor anymore once I have my jobs capped again, since it's boring as hell to me.