PLD Bonus Stats

[Excalipoor]

Read thru everything. Sounds like VIT or STR doesn't matter; they're both negligible. 1. Seeing as how the parry/block tiers require so much STR, you would have to spec gear and materia to pull any bang out of STR. 2. VIT would help you live thru something that can blast you for 4K HP or more. Wondering if any endgame bosses have that kind of an attack.... but the extra HP is minimal compared to what gear/materia gives. Most HP i've seen from a darklight geared Curtana PLD full VIT spec'ed is 4500 - 5k. Do PLD's get more HP than that?

Unless we get more levels or the tiers change for block/parry; sounds like Stat points are pretty cosmetic and the most bang for your buck is just VIT. But ultimately, can always respec if future patches change something.

Kinda feel dumb that I was going a 2:1:1 ratio for VIT/STR/DEX. =/ bugger.. I want those 8 stat points back i spent! lol

[Azmo]

Read thru everything. Sounds like VIT or STR doesn't matter; they're both negligible. 1. Seeing as how the parry/block tiers require so much STR, you would have to spec gear and materia to pull any bang out of STR. 2. VIT would help you live thru something that can blast you for 4K HP or more. Wondering if any endgame bosses have that kind of an attack.... but the extra HP is minimal compared to what gear/materia gives. Most HP i've seen from a darklight geared Curtana PLD full VIT spec'ed is 4500 - 5k. Do PLD's get more HP than that?

I'm at 5500HP in PT. Titan mountain busters for 3500+dmg if I dont have cooldowns popped, it's also followed up with an 1k dmg auto attack. I get my Curtana +1 today so I think i'll push 5600+ soon.

Edit: After completing turn 1 of the coil last night there is no doubt in my mind that stacking as much VIT as possible is the way to go. That snake hits HARD. I went into the fight with 5700+HP and needed every single hit point.

[Zfz]

Edit: After completing turn 1 of the coil last night there is no doubt in my mind that stacking as much VIT as possible is the way to go. That snake hits HARD. I went into the fight with 5700+HP and needed every single hit point.

But isn't the Coils actually supposed to be later stuff? I read somewhere that before the Coils there is another tier that got pushed back to path 2.1, so everyone doing Coils now is doing it severely undergeared (skipping one tier completely). If that's the case, shouldn't 30VIT be easily taken care of by one tier of gear?

[SeleneVenizelos]

Most HP i've seen from a darklight geared Curtana PLD full VIT spec'ed is 4500 - 5k. Do PLD's get more HP than that?

I have no Darklight and no Curtana and my standard HP on PLD is 5389. I look forward to seeing how much higher I can get my VIT when I do finish my relic.

That point aside, I tried 1:1 on VIT/STR for awhile and after never losing hate, ever, on anything I reassigned and put all 30 into VIT. It raised my HP more and I since have never lost hate either. Whilst I will never deny blocking more is useful and helpful, and that having that extra 15 VIT probably won't make or break your tanking, I can see no other logical choice. You don't need the STR to deal more damage to keep hate and all that extra STR will give me is 1% more block; as opposed to 15 or more (or more in other people's case) VIT which adds a noticeable chunk of HP.

Is there a stat we could put the points into for a greater amount of magic DEF? Seems like bonus stats are not game breaking in any way.

I believe Defense and Magic Defense are governed by the same stats, since no matter what combination of gear or points I use they're always the same. Not given it much more thought than that though, so I might be mistaken.