First piece of Soldiery gear

[bokchoykn]

In terms of Vitality and Strength, Head/Hands/Feet grants the highest primary stats per tomes spent.

Chest/Legs: 6 VIT & 5 STR for 820 Soldiery Tomes = 0.0134 Primary stat points per Tome

Head/Hands/Feet: 4 VIT & 3 STR for 495 Tomes = 0.0141

Waist: 3 VIT & 2 STR for 375 Tomes = 0.0133

Accessories: 3 VIT for 375 Tomes = 0.0080

Anyway... This is how I would spend Soldiery:

• Spend your Soldiery tomes based on the body piece you're least likely to upgrade to High Allagan. Head/Feet drop from T6. Legs drop from T7. Waist drops from T8. Chest and Hands drop from T8 or T9 (to be determined). Coordinate with the other tank in your static (if applicable) to decide which pieces you'll buy so you don't waste any Tomes or H.Allagan drops.
  
  
• Buy accessories if and only if you have an Oil of Time. Ring is the only one that can't be replaced by High Allagan, and does not drop from T6 or T7. This should probably be your first accessory purchase.
  
  
• Ignore these dumb "Best-in-Slot" lists that tell you to prioritize Parry over all other secondary stats. 50 Parry increases your overall damage mitigation by less than 1% and only against attacks that can be parried. The truth is all secondary stats suck except for Accuracy. Make sure your Accuracy is capped but don't be too far above the cap or else you're wasting stats, as shitty as they may be.

[Marxam]

The pants are nice for the parry but I'm not sure if giving up 24 det for 24 crit is worth it. The chest (for warriors) is a decent upgrade and adds on to the current Parry and Accuracy that we already have. Plus you should be at 500 acc atleast for turn 6. I found myself missing at 497 acc. But both are good in the long run.

Btw the tank pants look like booty shorts with long socks, according to xivdb. Please confirm or screens would help. If this is true I'm pissed.

[Alazier]

Anyone else find the stat boost from 90 to 100 to be very underwhelming? Only a few points that dont feel like it matters really. Sure it adds uo and its something.. but i was expecint at least a 1000 more hp from this gear upgrade

[Grimm08]

I find it kinda funny that so many people (not everyone, but a lot) are neglecting the fact that you can buy the shield straight away. My main class is MNK, and I got a ring for that first week, but this week I went ahead and got the shield. It has good stats, and looks awesome. 99.9% of the playerbase AROUND THE WORLD is buying their chest piece first, so I wanted to be different lol.

[Killabye]

I got the gloves, I wanted accuracy so I went with them. I'll get an accessory with accuracy next. Everyone will get the chest and I like my glamour outfit so I can have the gloves and shoes with it and will prob do it to the chest when I get it. Idk if the chest is actually stronger than two other items but I don't like waiting and the gloves look cool

[Ethronil]

I went for the ring first since i got this item to upgrade it to 110 :3
Next thing will be the Chest i guess!
To bad i have to wait another 2weeks for it since i bought the DRG ring in the first week since i was about to play DRG in 2.2 to bad a tank quitted and i am back to tankin shit XD

[Delorean]

Went with Body, gonna go for ring next if I don't get a helmet from Turn 5 soon.

Btw the tank pants look like booty shorts with long socks, according to xivdb. Please confirm or screens would help. If this is true I'm pissed.

well, that is why glamour was implemented. people have been examining my character all day so there are definitely pieces you can make work with the set

[abzoluut]

Like them bards.. So I asked one "do you run Coil", his response "yes man, it's awesome", me: "what's your acc at now" him:"oh shii... it dropped man, around 428 w/o food" me: "aah...".

So yeh, if you're planning to do Coil, just go for your primary stats with the most accuracy. Chest piece is nice stat wise, but I'd glamour it right away...

[Sarlazzar]

What do you think it should be for tanks? Got 900 to spend. Im undecided

depends on what u currently have, if you don't have the coil t1 body, I suggest go for the body, if you do, go for the ring or hands.

[Remn]

I would stay away form the new tome shield as it is a Tower shield as I perfer Kite and buckler type shield over that. (currently rocking levi shield [buckler] atm and liking it so far ;D )