So some of you are back from being Paladins from previous tiers sadness huh? Welcome to the 3.2 PLD BiS! In case you missed the memo – as of 3.2 tanks stack VITALITY! Thanks to Claes Henrietta for the help!
Quicknotes: All tank BiS pages are quite similar to each other, but the PLD BiS will “avoid as much SS as practically possible, and get as much Crit”.
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3.2 Paladin Best-in-Slot
| PLD | Item | Meld 1 | Meld 2 | Acc | Crit | Det | SS | Parry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Prototype Midan Metal Sword | CRIT V | - | - | 12 | 84 | 61 | - |
| Offhand | Prototype Midan Metal Shield | CRIT IV | - | - | 35 | - | - | 35 |
| Helm | Augmented Hellfire Mask of Fending | DET V | DET V | - | 69 | 66 | - | - |
| Body | Midan Coat of Fending | CRIT V | CRIT V | 112 | 102 | - | - | - |
| Hand | Midan Gauntlets of Fending | CRIT V | CRIT V | 48 | 24 | - | 69 | - |
| Belt | Augmented Hellfire Belt of Fending | DET V | - | - | 51 | 12 | - | 36 |
| Legs | Midan Breeches of Fending | DET V | DET V | - | 112 | 99 | - | - |
| Boots | Augmented Hellfire Sabatons of Fending | CRIT V | CRIT IV | 69 | 69 | - | - | - |
| Neck | Augmented Primal Choker of Fending | STR V | - | - | 36 | - | - | 51 |
| Earring | Midan Earrings of Fending | STR V | - | - | 49 | - | 36 | |
| Wrist | Augmented Primal Bracelet of Fending | STR V | - | 51 | 34 | - | - | |
| Ring | Midan Ring of Fending | STR V | - | 36 | - | 51 | - | |
| Ring | Augmented Primal Ring of Fending | STR V | - | 51 | 34 | - | - | |
| Food | Steamed Staff | - | - | - | 40 | - | 16 | - |
| Stats | Total stats from gear | 367 | 550 | 378 | 197 | 158 | ||
| End value | 721 | 904 | 596 | 551 | 512 |
PLD BiS Discussion
Why STRENGTH melded in accessories? While VIT beats out STR in value, STR beats the secondary DPS stats (Crit, DET, SS…). So while yes, tanking primary stat is undoubtedly VIT – it’s not like STR became WORTHLESS! Aside from Parry, we cannot meld any more defense on the right side…
THE ABOVE BiS IS MISSING 2 POINTS ACCURACY. It’s 99.9+% hit rate, but this can be bothersome. Ultimately, there are many ways to get that last 2 points –
- Food: Steamed Stafff -> Baked Pipira Pira (Most brainless solution)
- Materia: Change one DET meld into ACCURACY (Laziest solution)
Swap certain pieces of gear with an ACC one (more on this later on…)
Of the above, I’d recommend AGAINST gear swaps, as the food or materia change are the best (Personally I’d go the materia route).
PLD Lore Tomestone Buy Order
The below spending strategy is purely to obtain BiS fastest:
- Boots: Acc Crit – it’s just the smarter buy at this point.
- Mask: by order of savage floor obtained…
- Belt: by order of savage floor obtained…
- (Preference) Any other left-side filler (Chest>Legs)
- Weapon: On tanks, I’d say weapon AFTER left-side is complete.
- Ring > Wrist > Neck (Buying the acc pieces is safer…)
ANYTHING ELSE IS OPTIONAL: As mentioned earlier any left-side filler would be considered first (Chest, Legs) then Earring, Ring (Unupgraded).
Using up Pages and Midas Normal Parts
Click on the expandables below to see how you should spend pages, and which Midas Normal parts to get first –
Click the above!!!
PLD Crafted Gear Viability
As mentioned earlier, I update this a little later on just so I can update all lists ASAP. 90% of the info you need is already in the page, the rest is details…
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Well, good luck on gearing your Paladin for 3.2, and I hope the robots drop the loot you need!
Thanks for this wonderful guide! I probably already know the answer, but are you going to making a guide for 3.4 as well? If so, when can we expect it?
Why isn’t there a DRK BiS and gear guide?
It’s essentially a copy of PLD… but I get your point… I may as well, right?
Well it depends on if you want a high or a low Sks build, if you get a 2.35 gcd on DRK, you can get an extra gcd in BW, which is very useful. that takes 750 sks iirc, and if you can’t reach that or higher, you shouldn’t take any. I have seen two builds, and personally I prefer the high sks build.
This goes well over the accuracy cap actually. a8 front cap is around 700-705
Acc cap for midan savage:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/3263984/blog/2805450
– Kappa of FFXIVGuild.com
thank you so much :)
i was wondering do you know the ACC for Alex 5-8 savage ?
=== ALL COMMENTS BELOW ARE pre-3.2 VERSION ===
i can’t wait for update for Paladin gear :)
I have wootz and platinum set, but I don’t have that many materia slots.
Eh? That’s downright impossible. Those little green circles below the stats are materia slots. Each gear with at least 1 slot has a total hidden 5 slots.
Platinum Bangles of Slaying VIT IV VIT IV *FREE *FREE *FREE
Wrong! Bangles allready have VIT cap.
Platinum bangles of SLAYING are not vit capped.
Platinum bangles of FENDING are.
can you put the ilvl 130 jewelry like you did for bard
ok!
Looking at Ariyala’s site, your build comes in at 69 short of Accuracy not 40: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/QBA2
Ah, sorry. Replace the gloves in that link to Dread instead of Iron, and it becomes 40. ;)
Their link also is using platinum bangles of fending, not slaying, slaying has the +19 acc cap automatically, so things are a bit off on there =)
you have the poetics head piece in the body slot