Originally Posted by
Autymn
The wise strap is good, like a lot of things in FFXI, if you stack up what it gives. 3% haste isn't gonna do much, but 25% does a lot. At the moment I have magic crit +19% (Wise strap[3], Selenian Cap[10], Goetia Gloves+1[3] and Hecate's earring[3]) which gives me a +23 on my crits (10 base, 10 for the tatsumaki sitagoromo and 3 for the Goetia Gloves +1).
math time, let's say I'm casting a spell that usually lands for 2k damage
2000*100=200,000 - this is what i'd be doing normally over 100 castings
2000*81= 162,000 - what i'd do the 81% of the time I don't crit.
2000*1.23= 2460 - how much damage a crit would do
2460*19= 46740 - what I do the 19% of the time I do crit
162,000+46740= 208740 - how much damage I'd do over 100 castings
208,740/200,000= 1.0437 - how much extra damage I'm doing, or roughly +4 MAB
Now admittedly that's a lot of gear to get +4MAB, but most of this gear has other nuking stuff on it. So once I get a piece of gear that replaces one of their slots that has more than 4MAb on it this becomes pointless, but until then its better in the long run.
I've done a lot of testing and found MAB heavily outweighs INT at the higher levels unless you're getting a butt load of INT (like with the MM atma), so it'd take a LOT of int to outweigh 4 MAB.
Again, this is only if you stack it heavily. The Blitz ring is a joke for being 1% haste, but every melee has a haste set.