best stats for a paladin

[Alerith]

From testing that has been done, staking VIT at 50 has almost zero noticeable effect. DEX increases shield block rate, but again the rate is so inconsequential, you may as well not even waste the points in it.

STR increases your WS damage and by extension, your enmity when using The Fast/Flat Blade combo.

MND is probably the single most important stat to put your points into.

EDIT: Edited for some mistaken info.

[Judge_Xero]

From testing that has been done, staking VIT at 50 has almost zero noticeable effect. DEX increases shield block rate, but again the rate is so inconsequential, you may as well not even waste the points in it.

STR increases your WS damage and by extension, your enmity when using The Fast/Flat Blade combo.

MND increases your magic defense, as well as your damage. MND is probably the single most important stat to put your points into.

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MND - 4:1 Healing Magic Potency, Increases Flat Blade/Spirits Within Combo Multipliers (Capped ~240 @ Lvl 50) Largest gains to Auto-Attack up to cap, increases Weapon Skill Damage

STR - 3:2 Attack, Gives the largest increase to WS Damage.

DEX - 3:2 Accuracy, Increases Block Rate (which against anything over Dlvl is horrible) PLD least useful stat

VIT gives 1:1 HP, 1:1 into Block @ 0.1%, 3:2 Def/MDef, 4:1 Enhancment Magic Potency

Enmity+ 1:1 @ 0.1% increases Enmity Generated by all Actions. (10 Enmity = 1%)


Edited for new readers, and new testing completed. Post 1.23 pre 2.0

[Raldo]

MND increases your magic defense, as well as your damage. MND is probably the single most important stat to put your points into.

I don't have any insight for what stats are good for GLA/PLD, I just wanted to come in here and say that the bolded section of the quote is completely false.

Oh, and here's this nugget of info since no one mentioned it:
In patch 1.21, they tied MND to the enmity+ combo bonus for Flat Blade. Link to patch notes

Gladiator : Flat Blade : Combo bonus now affected by player MND rating.

[Judge_Xero]

I don't have any insight for what stats are good for GLA/PLD, I just wanted to come in here and say that the bolded section of the quote is completely false.

Oh, and here's this nugget of info since no one mentioned it:
In patch 1.21, they tied MND to the enmity+ combo bonus for Flat Blade. Link to patch notes

It would be interesting to know at what point MND actually effects the Combo Multi.

@ Lvl 50 I tested it from 240 to 320 and at 240 MND it is capped for both Spirits Within (1.5x bonus) and Flat Blade (4.5x Bonus)

Don't really want to make a new character to test it @ lvl 26, to see how low the Multi starts