warrior needs help

[kataly]

I'm a MNK lurking here in your forumz for God knows why, so I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'd stack STR because:

• VIT only increases HP
• 8% more HP in the end game, while nice, feels relatively minor (especially as you get better gear and more HP this % will only decrease), whereas...

Strength plays into a WAR's mitigation and usefulness in several ways!

• STR determines the damage mitigated when you parry. This becomes meaningful with Foresight.
• STR determines your self heal, which is WAR's version of mitigation.
• STR makes you hit harder, contributing to your enmity and your contribution to DPS races.

I'd also like to add that however you distributed your points via STR/VIT, you can always compensate with gear and materia.

[AridElf]

• VIT only increases HP
• 8% more HP in the end game, while nice, feels relatively minor (especially as you get better gear and more HP this % will only decrease), whereas...

Strength plays into a WAR's mitigation and usefulness in several ways!

• STR determines the damage mitigated when you parry. This becomes meaningful with Foresight.
• STR determines your self heal, which is WAR's version of mitigation.
• STR makes you hit harder, contributing to your enmity and your contribution to DPS races.

I'd also like to add that however you distributed your points via STR/VIT, you can always compensate with gear and materia.

That's great and all but Parry boosts and bonuses only apply IF you parry, I personally prefer to have a larger HP pool to sponge those hits. Defiance gives us a 25% HP increase and that is nothing to turn your nose up at.