Quote Originally Posted by Rbstr View Post
If you want to do more damage it is better. It simply is more damage. Are there other ways of doing that? Yeah and they will want to be explored first. But really, you're losing negligible numbers of defense stats for only marginal DPS gains with the swap: Swapping an accessory is a much larger change in HP than going i110 to i100 tank chests.

The way I see it is that, if you haven't upgraded the Noct Lorica and you don't need oils, the ST chest is something to get and will keep just fine until you can get a t9 chest.


Lets be "realistic" here: This argument is over insignificant amounts of defense and damage. If you've already got the i110 it's just not a priority when you could be gettings oils or UATs or gearing alts.
I think the problem is that the first sentence of this post is 100% accurate, and the rest of it ignores the question in the OP in favor of epeen wagging.

The benefit of the i100 piece is the extra DPS you'd get by wearing it. That doesn't make it better than an i110 piece unless you do nothing but OT OR you can get away with swapping it out without lowering your healer's DPS and you've already swapped out all of the jewelry you can.

Yeah, it's a great alternative to a weathered lorica. Yeah having it means you can focus on upgrading other gear or gear for other classes since the benefit of going from the i100 armor to a 110 lorica is smaller than the benefit from going from a weathered to unweathered lorica. And yeah, it's a desirable piece if you're putting together a DPS set to speed up lower ilvl content. But as a piece of pure tanking gear, it's not better than a 110 by any stretch of the imagination.