Advice for a Maelstrom WAR?

[Kagato]

We are on the same server, aren't we?

I think I have a Tier 4 VIT already laying around. Last I checked, they were fairly cheap (100,000-ish?). Then again, it seems materia prices go up and down a lot. Last week a tier 4 Piety was 400k. Now it's 150k.

Also, as much as I want to double-meld gear, I cant meld my own stuff yet and since you can only make a request for a single meld, I just need to wait for someone in my shell to hit 45+ in some crafts. Until then, I only got single-melds. The +120 HP Hauby I have was just a lucky buy for 500,000. Same price as just buying all the materials, cutting out the melding process entirely.

oi! let me fix that post then. My apologies. I've revised my guide on my LS site and apparently forgot to do it here.

Let me explain my meld strategy; basically you have a hierarchy of materia that should be like this:

Enmity > STR > VIT > HP

If you can put enmity in a particular slot, do it. Put STR and VIT where you can with priority given to STR because the cap is higher. For every slot that's left, use HP.

Either way, HP isn't a terrible choice, its great for tanking, clearly. My confusion came more from your choice of gear to meld it to rather than the materia you put on it. The hauby is geared more for DD than for tanking.

I'll follow that then. Just a few questions:

1) What body piece do you recommend to meld VIT to for tanking?

2) Earlier, you mentioned replacing WAR AF boots with... gloves? Was that a typo? "Sentinel's gauntlets with HP."

3) With all that's said and done, would you still disagree with using Storm Legs and Boots to get that extra +30 ATK on the Labrys? Seems like, according to a previous post in another topic, that 1VIT is more effective than 1ATK by about double, so 21VIT > 30ATK, right? If so, I'd only be missing out on +30ATK, +10 ACC, and +7 Crit power. Though of course, this is if I'm under cap.