When we get decent crafted gear, penta melded VIT/STR will be the best option for accessories. However it's gonna be very expensive to fully meld them, grade V materia will definitely be needed.

In ilv110, iirc you'd trade 1 VIT for 7 STR (comparing a penta-meld 110 to a regular 130 ironworks/dreadwyrm fending/slaying acessory), so it's a very good trade-off. It would be even more in, say, ilv180 crafted gear (assuming these existed/will exist)


At the moment we don't have many options for accessories, so what I'm doing is having 2-3 pieces of slaying and 2-3 pieces of fending, switching them as needed (if I'm MT or OT).

I try to avoid the fending accessories with parry all I can as a WAR, but maybe parry has its value for a DRK since Reprisal procs on parry.