Just want to pipe and thank the contributors of this thread, as a returning player I only got my PLD to 60 yesterday but I've been reading threads like these so I have a better understanding of how to gear up, so far the only STR pieces I'm equiping are rings but I'm only at 15.9k HP with the gear I have. As my gear improves I'm going to be phasing out VIT pieces to maintain 16.5-17k HP, as a veteran FF11 PLD I know just how effctive damage is when keeping hate so to be honest this argument brings back memories of that game when the turtle PLD's simply wouldn't have it that a DPS PLD was far superior for maintaining hate, once Attonment came out though that argument was settled with ease.

I haven't contributed to the thread but like many others (I suspect) I have read it and learned from it, cheers guys.