PLD - Upgrade Sword or Shield to Relic +1 (Zenith) first?

[Shneibel]

sword and armor first, shield can wait and FYI DO NOT count on coil drop, just gear yourself up and replace them with better piece you get from EM or coil later

[Omagana]

Been doing Turn 4 for weeks with normal curtana. If you need Zenith to hold aggro (2.0 included), you're doing something wrong frankly.

[Yunnie]

Remember- crystal tower is a joke- go there to get body and legs until they drop from coils turns 1 and 2.
Upgrade to zenith sword because u can't upgrade that until turn 5 and there is no ct stepping stone.
once you get a i80 or i90 body to drop, buy myth helm since that's also turn 5. If legs drop from either CT or coils, buy myth boots, if not, buy myth gloves. You do this because u need accuracy.
Accuracy is really important, and the only allagan parts that I can remember off hand that are pre-turn 5 come from turns 1&2. Body and shield, earring, ring and belt.
I know my allagan boots don't have acc so I'm replacing those next week, and I don't thik legs have acc either but I forgot. Valor body does not have acc but it does have DET... So depending on your acc you can consider buying this, but It's a lot of tomes for something that can easily be replaced.
Once again, sword is a lot harder to replace then the other stuff, so I'd upgrade sword first.

[Cligue]

I didn't upgrade my sword till I was i86 there is no real reason to rush it, you can do all the content fine with you curtana, you can not do it fine if you are low hp and getting 1 shoted. Enmity control is a joke in this game, so armor first!

[Remn]

... It been prove soo many time that Relic+ DL can get you to T1-4 just fine. there not really an order of which gear to get first anymore (especially now that the myth cap ries to 450...) Just do coil and CT then buy whichever piece you missing.
Just make sure that you ACC is around 470 w/o food. Just becareful when you replacing Glove and pant combo these 2 have a ton of ACC tie to them.

[Yunnie]

... It been prove soo many time that Relic+ DL can get you to T1-4 just fine. there not really an order of which gear to get first anymore (especially now that the myth cap ries to 450...) Just do coil and CT then buy whichever piece you missing.
Just make sure that you ACC is around 470 w/o food. Just becareful when you replacing Glove and pant combo these 2 have a ton of ACC tie to them.

^this is why basically why I like upgrading sword, and why I recommend focusing on accuracy i90 gear because accuracy is harder to get then it is with i70 gear. I found out the hard way when I put on my allagan boots. And when allagan gloves lost accuracy in 2.1 patch, I started to really hurt. I actually had to revert back to DL until I got myth gloves, and waiting until Monday for myth boots.

[Traek]

^this is why basically why I like upgrading sword, and why I recommend focusing on accuracy i90 gear because accuracy is harder to get then it is with i70 gear. I found out the hard way when I put on my allagan boots. And when allagan gloves lost accuracy in 2.1 patch, I started to really hurt. I actually had to revert back to DL until I got myth gloves, and waiting until Monday for myth boots.

His reasoning is more reason to go with armor upgrades. Whether you can survive fights in a swimsuit with excellent healers is irrelevant. The best upgrade path for a tank capable of pressing 1 - 2 - 3, is going to be armor. You get more bang for your buck in myth, and more margin for error for your raid. I was sitting at i88 average before I got weapon upgrade finally to i90. Don't regret it at all, was never an issue.

*edit* Also.. Allagan gloves never lost accuracy, they lost parry.

[Kaven]

Personally it's out of preference, what you can afford and be ars*d to save up for, now that they've made it incredibly easy to get gear you have more options to boot on what to buy first without any significant consequence.

Initially when playing before the cap increase and nerfs in the game the common trait was to upgrade to +1 (prior to the rename of Zenith) and to wait for the Allagan shield, purchase head (wait for boots / legs / chest as they all drop from the first 2 bosses), anything else such as accessories are easily purchased 1 per week etc, so there's really no need for a 6 page discussion as to whom is wrong or right, most server first FC's I know and have had the pleasure of being involved in some runs with back in the day when everyone was wiping on T1, all but a small minority upgraded their Swords first, it may not be the correct decision to the stat whores out there but it's still an upgrade and you'll look more appealing to a group than someone with the same gear bar 1 accessory upgrade , to your funky new glowy sword (whilst somewhat contradictive considering the Hero's ring will/should be your first myth purchase).

If you're running CT / Ultima / Coil it's best to wait till the end of the week till you spunk your myth to see what you get from the aforementioned instances.

[Katchii]

I got AF+1 Chest first because I got Crown of Light my first week in CT and wasn't about to wear Hoplite when I had the tomes. Also, since I have no plans on going in to Coil until I have an FC Statis, which is still forming, and will be running CT for a long time and normally find myself on add duty, I upgraded my sword to give me the little bit of extra DPS.