Quote Originally Posted by Viray View Post
Oh, that reminded me of a question I had - just HOW important is a weapon from Garuda for Titan fight for a tank? I mean, PLD's dps is a tiny at the very least, and after killing the Titan you get your relic weapon - is it worth grinding Garuda for that drop? I'm lucky that I have a FC, so I'm not condemned to pugging Titan over and over again...

EDIT: The difference between my current weapon & Garuda's would be +5 STR, +5 VIT -4 Parry.
Depends if you are having threat issues with WHMs in the Titan fight, even more so if you are going in with one WHM only. The fight requires a good amount of Medicas to be tossed out so you really have to be generating a good amount of threat in this fight compared to fights up to Titan. Keep in mind that the stats aren't the important factor in the weapon upgrade, it's the weapons based damage stat. The +2 to base damage for the Garuda weapon is HUGE and makes holding hate on Titan much easier. It's by no means required as a solid rotation by you and proper hate management by the WHMs in the fight can make Ifrits sword or maybe even the GC sword sufficient but the Garuda sword just gives you and the healers one less thing to worry about it a pretty hectic fight.