Paladin Materia

[Jpec07]

Im very worried about why you are melding STR into your left side, you realise that left side is your armor side right? (im sure you eather read it wrong or got your left and right mixed up)

Well right, but are the armor pieces already capped on Strength? I'll argue about the mitigation offered by Parry vs. Crit/Det/SS 'til I'm blue in the face, but Strength out-classes them all pretty severely. Point for point, it's the fastest way to boost your Attack Power and build enmity, and if you can get more Strength, it's worth taking. If not, though, Parry's getting my vote (though I'll probably have a Crit set and a Parry set, just so I can have a farm set and a turtle set).

[Violette]

Well right, but are the armor pieces already capped on Strength?

Can't meld main stats anymore.
(Welcome to 3.2)

[BattleGrace]

Well right, but are the armor pieces already capped on Strength? I'll argue about the mitigation offered by Parry vs. Crit/Det/SS 'til I'm blue in the face, but Strength out-classes them all pretty severely. Point for point, it's the fastest way to boost your Attack Power and build enmity, and if you can get more Strength, it's worth taking. If not, though, Parry's getting my vote (though I'll probably have a Crit set and a Parry set, just so I can have a farm set and a turtle set).

You are correct that STR offers more in the way of AP and yes it is the fastest way to improve said AP but it can not be melded onto rightside (armor). you may however be able to meld STR to only NQ greens since they do not reach the STR cap but that may not work unless it is only overmelding that can not have main stat melded, im not 100% sure when it comes to NQ greens (220). other then all that Crit is still the best but a healthy dose of Det can go a long way, but knowing you, you will continue to advocate parry.

Can't meld main stats anymore.
(Welcome to 3.2)

You can't meld main stats on anything but accessories and even then to a max of 15 since they have 1 meld slot (strickly talking about blues, i mean you could theroeticly if it is only overmelding that stops main stat but you would get nothing out of it if you could/can meld into garanteed slots since the item is already capped.