Attribute allocation

[Taemek]

It boils down to how good your healers are.

30 to VIT is not required to survive any hits in any content within the game, it is just a preference that some tapped on to under the notion that for every point of VIT spent, you were getting 100% gain from it where as 1 point of STR on its own does nothing remotely special and imho, you cannot gauge 1 point of VIT vs. 1 point of STR like that especially when the way the system calculates STR is in soft caps.

It was confirmed that every 15 points, STR, DEX, INT etc all increase in power for every point spent as you hit these soft caps, however you need to find out where you are at within those values as 30 points in to STR might only net you say 20 points of useful STR while the other 10 is wasted because you cannot get enough STR to push it over.

So you might be able to put some in to STR and some in to DEX.

Check this post for more detail, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...zation-for-WAR. Even though it is based on Warrior, the stat soft caps will be no different for a Paladin.

According to that thread, 405 STR is a soft cap zone, you can ethier pick up or reduce to figure out where you are at from there.

HP isn't always what it's cracked up to be, and it's subjective depending on what your doing weather or not that extra HP is going to be useful or not.

For examples sake say your doing Titan hits you for 1500 damage each and you have 3500 HP. You know after the first two swings the next swing is likely gonna hit you for the same amount so losing that 450hp you get from VIT to STR isn't going to make or break your dire situation. This of course is a very calculated scenario, but when it comes to mobs that tend to hit harder than that it's a bit easier to predict the treshold you need and what won't help.

However, since Attributes are a more difficult to swap around at a whim, I recommend instead you go out and buy yourself some DL/Hero STR accessories and instead rotate them with your VIT accessories as you need too.

Bad example imho as you are speaking from a DPS point of view and honestly, the only thing that should ever hit you as a DPS or healer on Titan is Tumult. At a certain point, if the fight lasts too long, no amount of HP or healing will save you.