Quote Originally Posted by Molly_Millions View Post
Imo, this topic should revolve around only the particular pieces that suck ass, not af as a whole. For example, the WAR set is quite nice. Triple melds should beat AF because they are UBER-rare. We were told af would beat single melded gear at least, and one could reason that the quote above includes double melds as well. For the PLD set, every piece can be beaten by a single meld when you consider actual usefulness and not just looking at the numbers.
Well that is because right now HP > anything else when tanking.

Unfortunately, SE believes a PLD should tank by holding hate with heals. Hence all the MND and +healing stats.

What SE thinks is good gear/stats doesn't always reflect what the community agrees with.