Quote Originally Posted by xxalucard View Post
I don't see why there is a reason to sacrifice an optimal i90 BiS set for some more accuracy. You're severely over-estimating how much garuda will miss at ~424 accuracy and the trade off for how much extra damage you do with the int + other stats should more than make up for it.
Well, thing is, I'm not over-estimating anything. I simply did an analysis on the best pieces to swap out BiS pieces for, if your goal is to get more accuracy. I'm not saying 450 accuracy is better than 424 accuracy in terms of overall damage. People can come to their own conclusions about how they value the Garuda DPS, or whether missing in Turn 5 matters more or less than not missing everywhere else and doing more damage. I'm not telling people how to gear, I just tried to show which pieces give the best 'bang for your buck' in terms of accuracy gains for the DPS loss involved. Other people (Kevee, etc. earlier in this thread) have done some napkin math on DPS gained/lost by not capping Garuda accuracy. If someone feels like they need more accuracy for Garuda, I just tried to provide some analysis that would help them make the best decision of what to do.

Quote Originally Posted by xxalucard View Post
The Vit boost you get from the i90 main armor pieces add up to more than enough hp for turn 5 fireballs, so there really is no argument (when you can have a full 90 set) to ever use melded gear with VIT, since it won't help DPS and you will already have more than enough hp to survive.
Key thing to note here.. "when you can have a full 90 set". I don't know about you, but I don't have a full 90 set. I'm on Turn 5. I started playing the game a month ago, I have my Relic +1 and am about to get a single Myth piece next week. I've had 1 single caster item drop for me in the 13 turns I've done to date. I'm sitting in mostly i70 gear, and I have to survive those fireballs and potential divebombs. You know what isn't going to help me survive it now? Waiting another month or two for more AF2 gear or hoping the RNG is in my favor on coil drops. Vitality on i70 gear is something I can do, right now.

Yes, once you have full i90 gear, you don't need vit on jewelry to hit those HP milestones for surviving T5. But, most of us aren't there yet.