Quote Originally Posted by Ceodore View Post
One stock set that is just mediocre at both capabilities.
That's just not true in most situations. Unless you are stacking all slaying or all fending, then the crafted stuff is much better.

Going from full fending to 4 fending + 1 slaying you gave up 40 vit and got 40 str. Going from full fending to full crafted you give up 55 vit and get 155 str. That is a massive boost to attack strength between the two sets.

If you wanted to go 1 fending + 4 slaying, then it's a similar situation. Full crafted allows you roughly the same amount of strength in addition to thousands more HP. There's no comparison.