Best Gear for Garuda EM? (BRD)

[Foullacy]

Echoing what they said, when you turn 50, it's time to hit up CT hardcore for both the items it drops and Philo/Myth tomes.

I turned 50 on the 8th, entered CT for the first time on the 9th. Less than 2 weeks later and doing pretty good so far...

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/6404346/ (Also a BRD)

Going to get a third CT piece today/this week and another Myth piece too.

You can do it, CT isn't hard, just gotta put in the effort!

You would have been better off getting the melee or caster DPS Darklight Ring instead of the tanking ring, from a DPS standpoint, it's going to be higher. Survivability is not a reason to get the fending ring, encounters are tuned with the understanding that DPS classes do not have VIT on their accessories.