How big of an impact is piety?

[Silvano]

Link for the threshold stuff; you'll have to search for the discussion on Lodestone, I copied the info for our GW site.

As for Piety, I think it was mentioned in Carraway's LNC guide on here that PIE is just a little under 1:1 with STR, so (for visual purposes only ^^) PIE : STR is 1 : .9

Most people are going 23 STR and 22 PIE from what I've seen, and that's what I did as well. I don't know how much damage I was doing pre-patch so unfortunately I can not tell you how big a difference it makes. Someone was supposed to be doing some Parsing on this and posting their results, but it hasn't popped up yet, and I don't have the extra gil to test it lol.