best stats for a paladin

[Molly_Millions]

you will never need to cast protect on yourself in a party. if you are finding that you do, something is wrong.

These three are always on my bar: Stoneskin, Provoke, Cure

These are the situations I use other stuff:
- Sacred Prism: When I can aoe cure/stoneskin others, like in Ifrit or Moogle (I guess, haven't done that in forever)
- Bloodbath: When I am purely tanking 1 mob and I can get mileage out of this with SW/Goring Blade.
- Raise: almost never have this equipped except when we are working on getting strategies down. Once something is on 'farm status', this spell becomes a wasted slot to equip. You might as well use expectorant/tonic since you can use those in battle.

Seriously though, drop Protect. Swap SP/BB/Raise as needed

I have cast protect during skirmish, but that's about the only time I've needed it in a group. I have protect on there for soloing not party play, but I've never felt that the lack of SS has hurt me. With three other people in the party (typically) that can cast it, I haven't needed to myself.

Before I swap anything, do you guys know if protect is affected by VIT? I was under the impression that it is, but haven't seen testing to say for sure one way or the other.

[Aceofspades]

I have cast protect during skirmish, but that's about the only time I've needed it in a group. I have protect on there for soloing not party play, but I've never felt that the lack of SS has hurt me. With three other people in the party (typically) that can cast it, I haven't needed to myself.

Before I swap anything, do you guys know if protect is affected by VIT? I was under the impression that it is, but haven't seen testing to say for sure one way or the other.

It is, but its important to remember that only whm/cnj get the buff that add "shell" effect with protect, hense why its important to get that from your whm, stone skin is the only buff that you can do at the same lvl as or close to that of your whm, whm also gets a trait that makes their stone skin stronger.

[Molly_Millions]

It is, but its important to remember that only whm/cnj get the buff that add "shell" effect with protect, hense why its important to get that from your whm, stone skin is the only buff that you can do at the same lvl as or close to that of your whm, whm also gets a trait that makes their stone skin stronger.

seems like a good enough reason to swap out my skills. thanks.