Just a few things to note from reading the OP:

- Swordmanship trait is useless to a GLA, it only increases affinity for use of GLA skills on other classes. GLA affinity on GLA is already 100 and you cannot get 110
- Emulate is also good to have, for NMs and everything else, really (at least until they rape it into the ground in the next patch)
- STR is almost equally as important as your VIT as it not only increases your damage, but REDUCES the damage you take while blocking with a shield (which should be 100% of the time if you're a tank)
- MND is also very important as it not only feeds your MP pool, but increases M DEF.

As a tank build example, here's my stats:

STR: 100
VIT: 128
DEX: 100
MND: 85
INT: 18 (default)
PIE: 15 (default +2 so I can use the +5 and +10 stat converters)

I'm sorry if anyone already mentioned these points. I just didn't really want to read from pg1 all the way lol