Quote Originally Posted by Aceofspades View Post
Yes PLD needs to land its attacks, no acc shouldnt be on the priority list. top 5 should always be def>vit>mind>block>hp, sounds more like reaching for excuses to justify replacing tank stats for dps stats.
Right now, it's more like Enmity = HP = Acc >>> MND > everything else.

When PLD got Atonement in FFXI, managing hate became all about having high accuracy and haste gear to reduce cooldowns and get to 100 TP asap.

Similarly, because Flat Blade has such a powerful enmity bonus and low cooldown, I feel like the optimal method of holding hate on PLD will be getting that 1000 TP to spam the Flat Blade combo as much possible in between your other combos and ability cooldowns. You should never be in a situation where you have more TP than you know what to do with. To maximize TP gain, you will need Accuracy.

Turtle-style tank has never been viable in an efficient party. This game puts too much emphasis on landing combos while defensive stats have minimal returns. The only time a full on defensive build is useful is when you're just running through darkhold or strongholds and training everything.

If you ever try to tank Garuda on PLD without accuracy gear, you will see first-hand just how crippling missing all your combos can be.