Quote Originally Posted by Molly_Millions View Post
Just FYI, to get decent hate on PLD you must cure your ass off. Because of this, MND is more important than STR on PLD. Also, VIT is pretty broken at 50, don't waste your time with it. At 50 all that VIT does is increase your HP at a 1:1 ratio. You'd be better off going with DEF on your shield.
What shield are you using that can be melded lol? Anyway, def is just as broken as vit. If you really have to meld a shield can't you do hp since that's pretty much pld's weakest tanking stat? Imo you need 4k (in full group) to be really safe against chim and miser. It can be done with less, but 4k seems to be the point where you pretty much never go down really quick. It's even enough to make derping on the occasional 100 tonez swing not fatal, though its still probably gonna kill you if you don't mitigate it with something (sent, block, etc). Once you get to 4000-4200 however, I wouldn't really advocate stacking any more hp, go for enmity.

Curing helps on threat, but in boss situations its unreliable imo. Only you should get hit, and there are 1-2 whms there making you not die. Sure you'll get some cures off, but with limited mp and a long cool down, much more of your threat is going to come from damage and abilities. Don't forget though, mnd is also one of our attack stats, so it pays both ways to cap mnd. Its worth mentioning that our stats suck. Even if you do a full allotment of str and wear two +1 str rings, you're still gonna be under 290 str.

To a certain extent, your stats depend on what you want to do. If you just wanna do spirit bond groups and exp at 50 with the occasional mog or ifrit, then a vit build is probably worthwhile. If you're really into doing speed runs of CC and AV, then you're gonna need enmity. I've found my str/mnd build is working pretty well, only issue of course being trash aoe pulls where we still suffer. If you can land meaningful cures its doable, but that's not always possible.

I'm gonna do some crunching on those block stats, but... with 1/3 of the time having 100% block rate AND a 100% chance to block on boon, you're already blocking a lot of attacks. I'm not sure mitigation is what pld needs, I still believe its more hate. We're really good at not being dead, but its no good to be the only one alive because the others all pulled hate off you.