FFXIV 2.0 Random Speculation/Question Thread XII: End Of An Era - ASK YOUR QUESTIONS HERE!

**Kurokikaze** · 2012-09-15 01:56

Wow finally some easy seals. Getting all my jobs geared up with free shit. haha

Unfortunately I joined Ul'Dah GC so I can't get BRD gear from Gridania.

**Ratatapa** · 2012-09-15 15:52

Any tip for BRD gear? lving BRD atm and wondering what is good to get

Twin adder btw

**miokomioko** · 2012-09-15 16:33

I've seen tons of bards go for the Gridanian Officer's Hat thing and Serpent Lieutenant's Bow... but I don't really know shit about BRD anymore.

**Fondue** · 2012-09-15 16:43

melded giantgall bow/gc bow, paragon crown, piety body if not ballad whoring.. officer body for serpents isnt bad either, dex melded gloves if not doing minuets, I just use af pants, some people go with dex or piety melded stuff felt gaskins?, darklight calligae or af feet, hq pie rings, pie bracelet, -enmity earring is probably nice, explorer's choker

this is overshooting piety but you'll lose out on some stats having to wear af pieces for buffs, if you arent wearing any of the af its pretty easy to cap out on stats with multi melds and that lets you do some attack power melds on gloves

officer cap is pretty good, serpent bow has 30 less base damage than flames'/giantsgall but 1.5 more dps.. not sure that's a good trade-off for bard

**Fondue** · 2012-09-15 19:24

additional effect landing rate on weaponskills is governed by what?

**Grey Jorildyn** · 2012-09-15 22:04

They would probably say PIE but in reality, I don't think the stats have as large an impact as whatever their base proc% is. When you take Pounce for example, it procs a lot assuming the mob can be stunned, and MNK never stacks PIE whatsoever.

**Pooke** · 2012-09-16 14:08

I know stat allocation preferences are scattered everywhere....could I get them condensed into one spot for which is most ideal please?

WAR: str/vit
MNK: str/int
DRG: str/pie
BRD: pie/dex
PLD: ???/???
BLM: ???/???
WHM: ???/???

First being primary stat. I never touched my stat allocation even with the hymms, figured SE would find a way to screw people over and change stats in 2.0 lol.

**Niiro** · 2012-09-16 14:15

You have the primary and secondary stats all reversed there (STR is the primary for WAR/MNK/DRG, PIE is the primary for BRD).

PLD is STR/MND

BLM and WHM are irrelevant as prim/sec stats effect melee and WS damage.

BLM you want INT/MND or PIE (MND for a bit of Macc, PIE for a bit of Enf, neither will make a big difference).

WHM you want MND/VIT (enhancing magic).

For DDs you're pretty much doing 23/22 prim/sec, for PLD it's a bit more complicated as they're a tank yet neither of their damage stats reduce damage taken. I personally did STR/VIT/MND 15/15/15.

**Pooke** · 2012-09-16 14:30

Oh yikes, guess I misunderstood the 1.20 notes when it said bonus 1..figured that'd be for the primary!

**Niiro** · 2012-09-16 14:58

Yes the notes were poorly formatted, "primary" and "secondary" were terms we (the players) came up with when people did some testing and determined one stat had a greater effect and a higher cap than the other.

In the notes no such distinction was made and they happened to list the lesser stats first.

**Arximiro** · 2012-09-16 20:56

For a blm lightning build should you just stack INT and Macc since Thundara caps AMP?

**Enygma55** · 2012-09-16 21:06

Macc always to the the point of no resist as resist = broken combo. It will vary depending on everything u fight. And yes Thunder = INT, every other spell = M.atkk

**Arximiro** · 2012-09-16 21:18

What is a good Macc number to shoot for? My current build is 354INT 481AMP 458Macc without food.

**Niiro** · 2012-09-16 21:22

It depends entirely on what you're fighting, the old standard of reference was Ifrit back when people actually did Ifrit, you wanted ~460 but you wouldn't be capped until ~480.

At least I think those were the numbers, it's been quite a while.

**Enygma55** · 2012-09-16 21:33

~450 for general stuff is fine. Harder bosses you'll be safe ~475+ and Garuda you'll need ~490+

**Arximiro** · 2012-09-16 22:08

Cool thanks guys, with food I have 481 Macc so I should be ok I think for most stuff.

**Jamison** · 2012-09-17 08:14

I have 460 m.accuracy (solo, before full party buff) and in 8 Garuda fights, I only missed one combo because of a resist.

**Toth** · 2012-09-17 12:22

Are the serpent claws (25k GC item) better than Garuda and Ifrit if you can get the serpent gear bonus (which I can do easily)?

I have Ifrit's Claws for my MNk but nothing special for my BRD. I am debating whether to buy the claws (and get almost 4k seals back in trading in Ifrit's) or buying the bow which unfortunately I will not be able to activate (for BRD, I could only use the coat, sash, and choker - not sure what other Gridiana pieces would benefit BRD)?

**Ratatapa** · 2012-09-17 12:24

Garuda are better but Serpect are better then ifrit even without the bonus

**shepardG** · 2012-09-17 14:10

@toth,

GC officers hat is amazing for brd.

Also brd, mnk are the only jobs I gear swap on. But yeah Dat hat is nice

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