Warrior Material

[Molly_Millions]

Why are you listing those for DD and not for example a cobalt haubergeon melded with crit attack
or even now the sexy Darksteel Haubergeon:

Str+7, Attack+7, Acc+8, Crit Attack+10 , meldable.

I ignored the darksteel stuff because it's prohibitively expensive. Like I said, the GC tabard isn't the best, but it holds it's own against average gear, being that the darksteel hauby is so expensive, it doesn't fit the "average gear" model. If we're gonna consider the darksteel gear, then we should also consider the darklight gear, and well, the GC gear won't hold a candle to that stuff.

If you're trying to get the set bonus, then you're downgrading other equipslots.

Not really, you can't put acc on your waist via materia for example. So by wearing the Flame Sergeant's Sash in addition to my gc tabard (the two having a combined 15 ACC), I can replace an ACC ring with the flame segeant's ring, which gives me 20 more attack power. Also, I could be wrong on this, but I believe the extra DEX on the sash helps add dmg to weaponskills as well.

Believe me when I say I did my homework before I bought the stuff. I thought it would be a bit of a downgrade, just as you obviously do, but I didn't think it would be huge. But it turns out I was wrong, for DD, the GC gear is very decent. The parse results don't lie. Again, you can make better gear with materia but it better have double melded tier IV's all over the place, and not just any tier IVs will do.