Paladin STR Accesories?

Question about these, Do they make a big difference in lets say your aggro meter when you flash or just overall ? Are the worth getting if you're good on VIT?

Kinda wanna get it to try it out but at the same time don't wanna waste all those Sold Tomestones so hope someone could answer me before i waste all those precious tomestones ! :P

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Originally Posted by Blitzace

Question about these, Do they make a big difference in lets say your aggro meter when you flash or just overall ? Are the worth getting if you're good on VIT?

Kinda wanna get it to try it out but at the same time don't wanna waste all those Sold Tomestones so hope someone could answer me before i waste all those precious tomestones ! :P

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I don't believe STR accessories affect aggro from Flash just going from the description of the strength stat, which is
"Affects physical melee damage, as well as damage prevented by parrying and blocking."
I mean, I have a set of STR accessories regardless, just for when I feel like I can afford to DPS, but I don't think it affects flash whatsoever.

I don't remember exactly what Flash's threat generation scales off of, but I remember hearing that it's based on your "Physical Damage" stat, which is directly correlated to your Strength. If that's the case, Strength accessories would make Flash more powerful.

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Originally Posted by Donjo

I don't remember exactly what Flash's threat generation scales off of, but I remember hearing that it's based on your "Physical Damage" stat, which is directly correlated to your Strength. If that's the case, Strength accessories would make Flash more powerful.

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Yea i heard once that Fight or Flight also helps with flash(Not sure if this is true or not) So i would assume it would, Guess we are just gonna have to test it out!

Afaik flash scales with your attack power, so STR would increase it, but FoF would not.

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Originally Posted by Alphras

Afaik flash scales with your attack power, so STR would increase it, but FoF would not.

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Hmm oke thanks!

Depending on bosses, in some fights, I would prefer a tank as much tanky as possible (like T8-9)
In some other fights, like T7 or T6 if not solo tanking, and some extremes like Ramuh maybe, on all the easy dj, why not ?

Really depends on your group but we use i110 STR accessories for everything now. (*we don't do Savage)

I always thoughT Flash scaled with weapon damage.

Flash scales with weapon damage and attack power. Also, it is affected by any universal damage% effects. However, because Flight or Flight only affects PHYSICAL damage%, it does not affect Flash. Flash is considered to be magical, despite how it scales. However, it is not affected by Foe Requiem.

According to blitzball (a website that compiled a bunch of damage, healing and enmity statistics), enmity is equal to the amount of damage done times multipliers from ability bonuses (shield oath/defiance, and any enmity generating attack). Flash is basically a damage-less physical attack with potency 500 and no enmity multipliers.

People discredit it for being old and out of date, but I'd think it's probably still qualitatively correct, if not quantitatively correct. Equip two physical damage classes/jobs with flash and provoke, figure out the rough damage/potency for each class with/without str accessories, and with/without FoF, and futz around on a training dummy seeing if the other class needs to do more damage after a provoke/flash when using FoF and/or str accessories.

Adding STR, increases your Attack Power, which def affects flash.

Increasing STR would also increase your DPS, which in turn = more threat generated.

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Originally Posted by dramamine

People discredit it for being old and out of date, but I'd think it's probably still qualitatively correct, if not quantitatively correct. Equip two physical damage classes/jobs with flash and provoke, figure out the rough damage/potency for each class with/without str accessories, and with/without FoF, and futz around on a training dummy seeing if the other class needs to do more damage after a provoke/flash when using FoF and/or str accessories.

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I would love to see that happen.

Lately I have been reading some posts here and on reddit of players arguing if Fight or Flight affect flash or not.
Want to get some confirmation on this.

Fight or Flight does not affect spells, so it doesn't affect flash. Which is clearly labeled a spell. Beserk however, does affect flash.

I run everything but Ifrit EX, Levi EX, Ramuh EX, T7 and T8 in STR accessories (And only T8 has the survivability reason, but even then, could do it with STR), it's just easier to control DPS for phase switches (and Ifrit's and Levi's auto-enrages) when my damage is not as high.

In addition, I tank all dungeon (coil doesn't count) bosses (except Halicarnassus, those IV spells can hit pretty hard + she has an auto-enrage) outside tank stance, unless on WAR, in which case I drop Defiance as Berserk + Unchained expire.

Not because of hate, but because the extra damage means stuff is cleared faster. When the HP is not needed, there's no reason not to increase the damage output.