Hello there and welcome back to your PLD.

This is just my advice, I am nowhere near an elite PLD but I can give you my opinion. When gearing you need to, as you did with BRD, think of what stats are most important to you and how you want to build your PLD. For me and my build this is how I have spent so far:

Lorica
Shield
Breeches
Ring

I have unweathered the Shield, obtained a weathered Burtgang and am working on getting two sands to unweather the lorica and burtgang. At the same time I am working on getting:

ST hands
ST Head
Belt
Choker
Second ring (So one Noct and one Weathered Noct after I get another Oil from ST)

I definitely recommend getting the burtgang going if you do not plan on going the zodiac route. With all the folks out there that have their zodiac weapons, ex weapons, coil weapons, i90 isn't going to cut it. After I got my breeches I was about i94ish and would loose threat from time to time.

Since getting my Burtgang that doesn't happen any more. It is a initial investment but should last a while.

You could do a good mix of Soldiery and myth buys. Also 1st coil is super easy, you cold farm on BRD for stuff or use your PLD as well. If you hunt you could use seals for myth gear, but I don't recommend that as you can use it for logs for sands and oils.

This is my current set: Paladin

To spending options, with new soldiery earned you would be at 1950. With this you could get the two most expensive buys out of the way. Weathered Noct Lorica - 895 and Weathered Noct Breeches - 895 and would leave you with 160. With Myth you could go Head, Belt, bracelet and should be left with around 50.

So you would end up with:

Myth head
Sol. Body
Myth belt
Sol. Legs
Myth Bracelet

This is just a suggestion and a good starting point. You could then farm Coil, CT, ST, Hunts for more gear and currency.

Again, this is just my opinion and not "the word" by any means. I hope it all makes sense and at least helps in some way.

GL to you shield brother!

Syn