Warrior Tanks: Maximizing DPS Output

[cearka]

Rose Gold caps at 12 Parry. So does Gryphonskin.

With Gryphonskin, you can get the same stats as Rose Gold, except you get 45 DEX on top of it. Mathematically, there is no reason to use Rose Gold over Gryphonskin.

(PS. Consider Rose Gold Ear Screws as "Gryphonskin" for the above comment).

except that you can meld Dex to rose gold if you want DEX (same caps). And its cheaper to meld dex then it is to meld parry, because STAT materia is generally way cheaper then any other materia.
this may be server specific but I've heard teh same from people on other servers.

So really, mathmatically they're equal, but Rose Gold can be done more cheaply. You can get basically the same end results based on what you want, but the cost of doing so is significantly different.