PLD Gear Advice. Please assist

[Molly_Millions]

Just get a mogblade

I wish it were that easy. I've got every mog weapon to drop multiple times but the sword. Same goes for Ifrit, swords don't want to drop to me. =/

[Brannigan]

Either meld something with acc or wait for 2.0 then

[Sounsyy]

I love my mogblade, definitely worth spamming moogle fight. I recently bought a giantsgall with +20 acc materia on it for cheaps though. (which seems like a huge waste of a heavens eye materia, but one man's trash is my gain lol) It does feel like I'm cheating on my mogblade.

[Molly_Millions]

I love my mogblade, definitely worth spamming moogle fight. I recently bought a giantsgall with +20 acc materia on it for cheaps though. (which seems like a huge waste of a heavens eye materia, but one man's trash is my gain lol) It does feel like I'm cheating on my mogblade.

I've got one of those with touch of rage on it, I really like it. Too bad that if you have two then one gets neglected via macros.

The problem with the moogle fight is, I've spammed it with my ls so much, that it's hard to get folks to do it any more. Most of my moogle weapons get turned into materia any more, but I've never got a sword to drop.

[Sounsyy]

The problem with the moogle fight is, I've spammed it with my ls so much, that it's hard to get folks to do it any more.

I feel ya. Been trying unsuccessfully for mogbow for awhile. No one's really interested in primals when giantsgall are "better" or "easier." Can't say I feel greatly motivated to spam moogle either truthfully.

[MoarLegion]

Why does every pld gear thread turn into a prick waving fight?

[Molly_Millions]

Why does every pld gear thread turn into a prick waving fight?

Because some folks can't handle intelligent debate without trying to belittle those with differing opinions.

The fact remains that there are several different ways to gear a PLD. Some are more effective than others in different instances, and some of us favor one way over the others. I think that much we can all agree on.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Because some folks can't handle intelligent debate without trying to belittle those with differing opinions.

The fact remains that there are several different ways to gear a PLD. Some are more effective than others in different instances, and some of us favor one way over the others. I think that much we can all agree on.

Which is why it's basically my favorite class. Gearing it is fun.
And yeah, people see someone else having a different opinion and instantly want to bash on them. Basically the nature of gamers everywhere.

[Judge_Xero]

Why does every pld gear thread turn into a prick waving fight?

The reason is because Tanking is a complex role compared to just spamming damage as fast as you can.

Build Enmity + Negate Damage + Deal Some Damage + Be prepared for Enmity Resets + Avoid Large Damage
+++

Then the different builds come in:
- Stack Defense
- Stack HP
- STR/MND/HP or ENM
- MND/ENM/HP

There are "ways to complete" content builds

Then in come the "ways to complete Hardcore and normal" content builds + prevention of miss-information.

[Molly_Millions]

+ prevention of miss-information.

Tbh, I don't see a lot of what I would call miss-information in here. On the other hand, there are a lot of mixed messages. As in folks giving advice for one type of build, then somebody coming in recommending gear for another type of build. In the rare case that somebody does give wrong info, that's when the prick waving starts. Instead of a simple correction and explanation, it turns into "you don't know a thing about the job", "your a shitty tank", "just stop posting", "do you even play this game", etc. I've seen several shitty tanks in-game, but I've never seen one in here giving advice.

As things are today, the best thing a player can do is read and fully understand Kaeko's blog and the other test results that folks like Judge (above) have posted. As long as you're applying that testing to your build you are going to do just fine gear-wise. (Even in the case of me mistakenly recommending DEF over VIT for PLD, the actual results of that recommendation are extremely negligible in the grand scheme of things.)