Materia choices for Glad?

[Treach]

Until I actually see a parse showing VIT actually reducing both magical, physical damage and by a decent amount, I'm never going to use it on gladiator, the vit to hp ratio is "around" 1.2 HP per vit so to equal one 65 hp materia you'd need 54 VIT which is triple socketed 18 VIT materia compared to one single 65 hp materia. You would get 10 enhancement magic from 50+ vit, which would be cool for stoneskin but how often do you stoneskin yourself? >.> If vit was actually any good wouldn't the 90% of tanks I see stop using mithril bracelets and use vit rings instead? (I use str rings though with the other 10%)

I agree on possibly STR for gloves, but instead of having three sets of double materia gloves for mrd and glad I'll just use my cobalt mitt gauntlets with str instead of cobalt gauntlets. You can do some pretty nice damage on moogles during the burn phase, 500-550 damage riot blade and 100-120 per rage of halone swing combo for 1k damage on the squishies, less on mrd or gla moogles. I've also been using the bladed lantern shield for 10 more attack since you can't block ifrit even with ourmanuever on, same for moogles since I just kite king, mrd and whatever else I can get to chase me (can't block from behind even with aegis boon on) but I keep my vintage kite shield for soloing or gold nm adds.

Last thing, materia isn't needed for any fight atm, it's just extra help or breathing room for tanks. Harder for your HP to hit 0 when you have more and it gives healers more time to respond. My two cents and logic anyway.

[Technolust]

I've also been using the bladed lantern shield for 10 more attack since you can't block ifrit even with ourmanuever on, same for moogles since I just kite king, mrd and whatever else I can get to chase me (can't block from behind even with aegis boon on) but I keep my vintage kite shield for soloing or gold nm adds.

Uh you can block Ifrit with a shield... I do it all the time.

[Treach]

Uh you can block Ifrit with a shield... I do it all the time.

I've only ever blocked ifrit with aegis boon on, never once blocked him otherwise....dex rings, dex+16 gloves, vintage kite shield, sentinel gauntlets, not one single block that wasn't forced by aegis boon.

[Radiator]

I've only ever blocked ifrit with aegis boon on, never once blocked him otherwise....dex rings, dex+16 gloves, vintage kite shield, sentinel gauntlets, not one single block that wasn't forced by aegis boon.

Dont know how thats possible, I use kite sheild and block quite often throughout the fight (10-20 times per fight depending on how fast the fight is) Get War drum off at least 3-4 times a fight.