Quote Originally Posted by Aceofspades View Post
Just curious as to why people keep under rating vit and def, I promise not to get on another rant about it, but serously... Defense is certainly not broken in any situation. to sacrafice defence for somthing as trivial as HP or STR is just insanity. Dont mis understand please, Im not trying to dis anyones build, but it confuses me as to where people get the motivation for such builds? I have seen damn near every chart that explains how DEF is broken and HP rules supreme , HOWEVER when doing the actual testing, none of those charts make any sense , except for one, in wich they did very minamal amounts of def increase to test , and where suprised to see that +10 def didnt take alot of sting off a HNM hit.... LOL, Enmity is a priority for a tank, but luckaly SE gave us enmity ablities that tie into proper stat builds, sadly we dont get the same ATK + boost from vit like war but I would imagine thats to keep from over powering PLD like they did war, reguardless, there is aboslutly no reason to neglect deffensive stats on this game for your tank.
I agree that Defense is pretty important (+70 Defense with Sanction)
But I did sacrifice adding a lot of Vitality for the sake of STR and MND.
The main issues I was having with running PLD with a Defense/VIT and ENM build was that you didn't leave yourself much time to stop spamming attacks and skills to be able to dodge attacks.

The reason behind this build is that it generates a lot of Enmity through extra Damage + Combo Multipliers.
So much in fact, that you are able to dance around bosses and avoid heavy damage, without the worry of losing Hate.
The downside is the fact that you need to know the fights and be ready to move.