Quote Originally Posted by Mister-Wonderful View Post
I don't quite understand why the arguement is moot unless you have triple pie melded.

with a triple pie body you should already be blowing stat cap way out of the water and hauby would still be better due to base strength and attack instead of additional piety and attack. I can do about 373 strength and 320 piety with a triple meld hauby, even allowing me to wear Darklight Eyepatch instead of the darklight helm because i dont need the strength, allowing me to increase crit rate/crit attack while still capping stats.

It is a preference thing either way, and you should choose what works for your gearset, but I see the hauby as the more beneficial piece any way you slice it.

And there is a very minimal difference in stats between HQ and nq, 1 additional attack power from hq tortoise(so 3 higher than hauby in total) and ease of HQ are not enough to make me want to lose 6 str and accuracy for it. Pie is capped easily with either body and I prefer extra strength/acc.
I think the HQ body is for the higher double/triple meld chance. While Cobalt Haubergeon might be the better body choice, as a practical matter the stack of HQ bodies you need for double/triple melding might dictate going with the Tortoiseshell armor instead.

Once you can go above STR/PIE caps, then the question is how does Crit gear stack up? Especially after last patch I don't know the answer to this.

Can you list your gear set? Since you are above the STR cap (I assume) you might be better off with a Crit Atk body.