What's Better?

[Kohan]

Quit mid last year, reactivated today. Help me ungimp my poor mnk! Quick and/or optimal pieces are welcome.

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TP


WS

On the TP front, for a few quick thoughts, I'd suggest:

Neck: Rancor Collar
Head: Ganesha's Mask
Ear1: Ghillie Earring +1 (or, temporarily, the NQ)
Body: Temple Cyclas +2 when Impetus is up (if you don't do this already)

As for WS, some of these will be more long-term, but you can aim for them nonetheless:

Head: Thaumas Hat
Ear1: WotG Earring, TP Bonus+
Body: Toci's Harness when Impetus is down
Hands: Mustela Gloves
Legs: Thaumas Kecks
Feet: Kacura Leggings +1

If you want a long-term TP set to shoot for, the best thing right now is:

Head: Usukane Somen +1
Neck: Rancor Collar
Ear1: Ghillie Earring +1
Ear2: Brutal Earring
Body: Thaumas Coat
Hands: Tenryu Tekko +1
Ring1: Epona's
Ring2: Rajas
Back: Atheling Mantle
Waist: Windbuffet Belt
Legs: Tantra Hose +2
Feet: Usukane Sune-Ate +1

[noodles355]

Really more thinking (hoping?) that this stuff will matter for the future and looking at it from that perspective.

We don't really know what the future holds, which if anything I think it's worth getting anyway to cover all bases. Also, Hekas (and thus heka set) does not exist for me after 700 or so kills.

[mdkuser]

Quit mid last year, reactivated today. Help me ungimp my poor mnk! Quick and/or optimal pieces are welcome.

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TP


WS

Are you rich or not?

If you're poor:

Usukane head +1/rancor collar/moonshade (regain att)/brutal
Tantra+2 or thaumas/usu gloves +1/epona/rajas
atheling/BB or twilight/tantra+2/tantra+2 or thaumas

get at least a nemetona cap for victory smite ( until usu head+1), its easy to get. its also the best TP head until usu +1.

If you're rich or can gather 5 friends to spam WoE#15: get a pair of nomkhapa mittens to use instead of usu hands +1.

If you're rich and can get 5 friends to help, get tenryu tekko +1 to use with:

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/goading or twilight/byakko max augment/usu feet +1 (ultimate impetus set)

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/twilight belt/abatteur subligar/thaumas nails (impetus down)

or

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/windbuffet/khepri kecks/usu feet +1 (ultimate impetus down)

or the set posted by kohan, which is the best non impetus if you catually cap str, dex and att with it, but replace ammo and back by misuuchi kappa and hagneia stone.

dont make TP bonus moonshade if MNK is your only DD. make regain/att. never make counter/att.

[Yubar]

Are you rich or not?

If you're poor:

Usukane head +1/rancor collar/moonshade (regain att)/brutal
Tantra+2 or thaumas/usu gloves +1/epona/rajas
atheling/BB or twilight/tantra+2/tantra+2 or thaumas

get at least a nemetona cap for victory smite ( until usu head+1), its easy to get.

If you're rich or can gather 5 friends to spam WoE#15: get a pair of nomkhapa mittens to use instead of usu hands +1.

If you're rich and can get 5 friends to help, get tenryu tekko +1 to use with:

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/goading or twilight/byakko max augment/usu feet +1 (ultimate impetus set)

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/twilight belt/abatteur subligar/thaumas nails (impetus down)

or

usu head+1/tenryu tekko+1/windbuffet/khepri kecks/usu feet +1 (ultimate impetus down)

or the set posted by kohan, which is the best non impetus if you catually cap str, dex and att with it, but replace ammo and back by misuuchi kappa and hagneia stone.

dont make TP bonus moonshade if MNK is your only DD. make regain/att. never make counter/att.

Would anything change in those gear sets for a Spharai user?

[Arthars]

caudata belt or ele belt for catastrophe(and maybe resolution)

[mdkuser]

Would anything change in those gear sets for a Spharai user?

the difference with spharai and verethragna is essentially spharai needs more str and more haste. So the extra 1% haste on tenryu tekko +1 is very improtant to spharai, not so important with verethragna (since only 24% haste is needed with tantra body's delay reduction). For verethragna you can make set ups almost as good with just nomkhapa mittens, which are 5x cheaper. The best STR options come from legs imo, and the 3 top legs with that respect are khepri kecks, abatteur subligar and usu leg+1.

In any case, tenryu tekko +1 is in almost any of the best set-ups now, it's a must-have. Typicall situation where its not the best are accuracy builds. For accuracy builds this looks like the best:

usu head+1/Ziel charm (or ancient torque)/moonshade (acc/regain)/brutal/mantis eye
usu body +1/melee gloves +2/epona/mars's ring
letalis mantle/BB/abatteur/usukane feet+1.

[Mrp]

What is better for casting Paralyze? Tom Staves or Chantoyant? Affinity Magic Damage does anything for paralyze?

The casting time -14% work for all spells of the element? right IE Para Slow Reraise raise( for light?)

[Taint]

caudata belt or ele belt for catastrophe(and maybe resolution)

Not even close on for Resolution. If you need the att it can be used for Cata but that belt is pretty much crap for DRK.

[Gokku]

In prep for the new expansion dropping I was thinking of making an high account all around tp set for relic hth using this set http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/255362 way over haste cap though... Any of the newer belts with lower haste any better? Kinda lost on what to do with all the haste, and couldn't I not us Nomkahpa mitts and use melee+2 with twilight belt for still capped haste?

[dasva]

What is better for casting Paralyze? Tom Staves or Chantoyant? Affinity Magic Damage does anything for paralyze?

The casting time -14% work for all spells of the element? right IE Para Slow Reraise raise( for light?)

Depends on which staff and the situation. No dmg doesn't boost paralyze effect. So the macc staff has more macc the dmg one less. But chat has mnd which adds to potency but not sure if there is anything that you can't cap potency on without staff so meh. And yes staff cast/recast times apply to that element.

[TacoTaru]

Been trying to figure out the direction my wife should take her NIN after returning. I haven't really had much luck finding sets to go off of (I found a few but not many) so I'm not sure how right or wrong these are. Any help would be appreciated.

TP Current: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/289325
Blade Hi Current: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/289327

TP Planned: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/289326
Blade Hi Planned: http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/289328

Again, any and all suggestions for current/interm/planned gear is appreciated. Usukane +1 doesn't really seem to have any place for NIN, am I mistaken in this assumption? Also is the merit WS for Katana worth a damn? She's keeps asking me if she should spend the merits to learn it, but I honestly have no idea as I'm pretty clueless about all the merit WS in general.

[Isiolia]

Also is the merit WS for Katana worth a damn? She's keeps asking me if she should spend the merits to learn it, but I honestly have no idea as I'm pretty clueless about all the merit WS in general.

Shun is not a bad WS, but unless there's an issue with getting Hi to crit, I think it's at best competitive with that. It can compare favorably to Jin outside Abyssea for non Kannagi users, but at that point it's also a question of job usage.

I'd say to skip it unless NIN is her only DD or something.

[tenkiki]

I was able to test out a pair of Blutkrallen and it turns out they have 12.5% defense down. With the hq providing 18.75% defense down, how do they compare to other h2h such as brawnys, relic/emp/mythic assuming the effect is applied full time? I tried to use the spreadsheet, but I'm pretty sure my poor understanding of excel gave incorrect data. They definitely seem better than Brawny, but how worse are they compared to, say, Verethragna?

[dasva]

Would need more data to really determine that. I mean it will be impossible to actually have up all the time so would kinda need to know proc rates and duration

[tenkiki]

The NQ duration is 2 minutes while HQ is 3 minutes (from eyeballing, maybe the base proc rate is also increased between the two, but I'm not sure how I would test this as it would vary from enemy to enemy). Also, with its ability to overwrite itself and proc on any attack in a round (leading to funny moments where it procs 5 times in one round on a quad), it's not too much of a stretch to have it up full time once it initially procs and would make the math easier. I don't fight anything serious with my monk/pup though, just DC dynamis mobs and Bhaflau II.

[Mrp]

What is better for Blm Nuke Hands? Nares Cuffs or Goetia Gloves+2?

Nares 13MAB and 5INT (with 4piece)

Goetia 8MAB , ffxiclopedia claim that Increase magic hit damage is like 5MAB + 5int and set bonus (with legs)

on paper goetia seems better , if ffxiclopedia is right..

[Byrthnoth]

Nares is better. You only get 5 mab on mcrits, and your only mcrit rate source is probably Nares head and hecate.

[NynJa]

Sometimes rewriting the question can answer your own question.

MAB+13 INT+5 100% the time?
Vs
MAB+13 INT+5 5% of the time?

[TacoTaru]

Also (assuming BG wiki is right) four pieces would make Nares gloves 13MAB INT+10

[dasva]

Also (assuming BG wiki is right) four pieces would make Nares gloves 13MAB INT+10

Sorta. It would make the set bonus 10 int. But 3 peices would still be 5 so the gloves are only really adding 5