Quote Originally Posted by Treach View Post
STR most important stat, increase AA, WS damage therefor increasing aggro (primary purpose of being tank). The other 22 points are a toss up.

VIT to HP ratio is poor, like 1.4 hp per vit or something I think and sucks for increasing defense and acting as any real kind of mitigation against a hard hitting boss like ifrit.

DEX is the worst stat in the game imo, for every class including archers as it only increases archer AA damage. You are always accuracy capped with the full party buff and if you want to solo just get a mog blade. Adding dex for just the sole purpose of critical hits is a waste of points, it's rng, don't bank on crits for anything. Adding dex for block rate is pointless for gladiator, might be different for PLD but I wouldn't get your hopes up on that.

PIE, you don't need the minor mp boost or 4 enfeeble skill from it.

MND, you get AA only damage increase that probably hard caps around 280 and small self heal increase on cnj cure spell. Might be more useful for PLD healing spell but idk, have to find out tomorrow.

I did 23 STR and 22 VIT thinking the hp increase was going to be higher, tomorrow I will probably restat to 23 STR and probably 22 MND IF there some larger advantage compared to the minor increase from VIT. All assuming PLD AF doesn't set you near probable MND hard cap for AA damage.
I have seen parse results for VIT from BlueGarter and it does give a decent reduction in damage. Look it up yourself if you'd like. (too lazy to link)