Quote Originally Posted by animeprime View Post
I belive they said they were going to be changing gear so it would have more stats and they would have more of an impact. Perhaps thats the reason for the big differences. I don't know if that was coming out in 1.19 or later though. I kind of like the idea of MRD being an anti magic tank and GLD being a physical mitigation tank. The only problem I see is the amount of movement necesary to fight casters messing up steadfast.
That's a good point. A shield would presumably be pretty useless against magic attacks anyway. (Unless you can add Materia to a shield, which could be used to buff magic resistance.)

And the point about moving vs. steadfast is also astute. There does appear to be a ton of movement required in that video. Ifrit jumps around quickly, those exploding floor areas require you to move away from them, directional AoE attacks, etc. So Steadfast may not be much of an option in the Ifrit fight.