PLD viable for speed runs?

[Judge_Xero]

However my standpoint about MND/STR actually factoring in the WS damage factor of Spirits is still prominent in my testing, I will fall back however and do some more tests with a greater range of HP when I can however.

Yes STR and MND do effect all the WS's on PLD. I've tested this under my thread of PLD STR/MND Stat Caps.

hmm, never thought about mind effecting damage either, it would apear that with mind effecting damage, there leave little incentive to stack str, before it was rummored that str effected block, (not block rate) , I belive that was later debunked. Pretty certain block rate is effected by dext, as well as accuracy, soo the only other place one could add str (pants) it would apear as tho you would want dext instead. making str seem like an alternative for PLDs seeking to do more DPS instead of tank role. I like the availability of diffrent options , however, pld as a dps role seems pointless. The amount of effort it would take to make pld do GOOD dps seems more trouble then its worth when better alternatives are out there. Just curious as to why SE would even give us that option. seems they would make vit a damage multiplier, but if they did that , I could see where PLD could quickly become OP.

@ Lvl 50, STR is the best stat to raise for PLD, as far as generating Enmity. I've tested this as well.
@ lvl 50 above ~240 MND there is no extra combo bonus increase. (Flat Blade 4.5x bonus and SW 1.5x Bonus is Max - Tested up to 320 MND)

PLD will never be a great DPSer, but say if your Flat Blade (in Combo) does 175 Damage. Then you stack say, 100 STR and now your Flat Blade does 260 (in Combo)

Then you went from Generating 962 Enmity every 10 seconds
to 1430 Enmity every 10 seconds, with just Flat Blade Combo

MND for damage increase on WS only gives 2/3 of what STR gives. Plus the atk bonus from STR will give a slight boost to auto-attack damage.