Strategos Choker vs Darklight

[FeliciaVale]

Firstly forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere. I play WHM and at first I dismissed the Darklight neck and earrings as being too small upgrades when I had 3 jobs to gear up with the tomes. Now I've pretty much got everything I need or want from Philo tomes and I'm looking at Strategos vs DL neck.

The thing I was wondering is that the DL drops the determination for piety, which I had been operating under the assumption was a pretty crappy stat (I understand that it gives mana and increased mana regen, but the info I have heard is that the returns for piety are very low).

I have heard many things about determination and main stats. Wondering if someone had a definitive answer on how much det = MND? Because if my heal potency is going to go down by buying the DL neck I'll probably stick with the Strategos.

[Whippet]

DL own Strategos, no question there

/end thread

[FeliciaVale]

Yes but why? Does the one point of MND outweigh 8 Determination? Thats the real question thats making me hesitate.

[Raminax]

It doesn't outweigh it completely. My memory is a bit sketchy, but I think most would claim that ~6 Determination gives you the equivalent of 1 Mind. So yes, Strategos Choker should be outright better in pure healing output, though you'd lose some longevity for using it.