Molly's ARR Stat Guide

[Molly_Millions]

DEX adds block/parry rate, STR adds damage mitigation from blocking and parrying. VIT is only HP, so without the other two it won't help all that much. As long as you equip HQ high iLevel items made for a tank, you should get plenty of VIT. In a lot of cases, the BiS item will have VIT as a main stat already.

But again, you can break some of those rules. You could, for example, use Rubelite rings and stack VIT on them. I'm gonna stack DEX on mine, personally, but I could see going the VIT route. Sometimes the highest iLevel item for the slot has VIT rather than STR, or DEX, in which case I'd add STR first then DET. Given the way melding works, I'm gonna go for quad melds in every slot that I'm using melded gear.

I've got kind of a companion guide to this one on melding http://www.abaddon.us/phpBB3/page.php?p=melding-guide in ARR.