Fending vs. Slaying accessories at this point in the game

[aerolol]

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.

[Kiteless]

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.

No, even for DRK, parry is a bad stat, and should be avoided in favour of pretty much anything else. It requires far too much investment for far too little gain in your parry rate, and still has the fundamental problem of being wholly unreliable. DRK might have some skills that benefit from parrying attacks, but don't think for a second that it actually justifies the investment in such a worthless stat.