Current BIS for Bard

[Deadcell1453]

What is the current BIS for bard now that we have new items introduced?

[xcifux]

What new items ?

[BrandoH]

Allagan Bow
Allagan Visor
Bard's Shirt
Bard's Gloves
Hero's Belt
Allagan Pants
Allagan Boots
Allagan Necklace
Hero's Earrings
Inferno Bangle
Hero's Ring
Vortex Ring

HQ Deviled Eggs

482 Acc 555 Crit 244 Det 412 Skill Speed

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Best set I've found so far while tweaking pieces at http://www.ariyala.com/ffxiv/gear.html , but requires two T5 drops, two T4 drops, and the EM Ifrit loot.

[Parks]

Allagan Bow
Allagan Visor
Bard's Shirt
Bard's Gloves
Hero's Belt
Allagan Pants
Allagan Boots
Allagan Necklace
Hero's Earrings
Inferno Bangle
Hero's Ring
Vortex Ring

HQ Deviled Eggs

482 Acc 555 Crit 244 Det 412 Skill Speed

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Best set I've found so far while tweaking pieces at http://www.ariyala.com/ffxiv/gear.html , but requires two T5 drops, two T4 drops, and the EM Ifrit loot.

With Lecreuset's suggestions this is the best set I've come up with as well. Perfect T5 accuracy cap and a great amount of crit. Definitely one of the harder sets to attain given the T5/Ifrit loot, but again, almost certainly the best set we can put together.

[LunarEmerald]

With Lecreuset's suggestions this is the best set I've come up with as well. Perfect T5 accuracy cap and a great amount of crit. Definitely one of the harder sets to attain given the T5/Ifrit loot, but again, almost certainly the best set we can put together.

No reason to run Coil once you have all that. Heh

[BrandoH]

No reason to run Coil once you have all that. Heh

The achievement. :3 But the goal is to be the max possible stats before 2.2

[Songi]

The achievement. :3 But the goal is to be the max possible stats before 2.2

I'm slowly but surely inching towards perfection. Unfortunately my server is slow when it comes to progression so Ifrit wrists probably won't happen for a bit. On the bright side, I'm sitting at 575 critical hit rate with food and maintaining the needed accuracy for T5 which I'm still going to need since my FC is slow to clear it. I still wonder how high I will have to take my stats just to be able to make 2 star foods a worthwhile investment.

[Ooshima]

but requires two T5 drops, two T4 drops, and the EM Ifrit loot.

Just a quick comparison, the quoted set gives:

224 DEX
121 ACC
185 CRIT
42 DET
87 S.Spd

Mine:

222 DEX
123 ACC
182CRIT
67 DET
50 S.Spd

I am sacrificing 2 points of DEX for 25 points of DET. I prioritize CRIT followed by DET, while largely ignore Skill Speed. I have 3 points of CRIT lower but 3 points doesn't matter, I have 2 points of ACC. Of course this set, like the original set, would need food that boosts accuracy since it is a little shy of the +131 acc required from gears.

If anyone is interested, mine is easier to obtain since I need less Allagan drops (3 less drops)

Allagan Bow
Bard's Chapeau
Bard's Shirt
Bard's Ringbands
Hero's Belt of Aiming
Bard's Tights
Allagan Sollerets of Aiming (T4)

Ultima's Choker of Aiming
Tremor's Earrings of Aiming
Inferno's Bangle of Aiming
Hero's Ring of Aiming
Allagan Ring of Aiming (T5)

[Lecreuset]

Switch your bard head gear to allagan visor and tremor earrings to hero's

[BrandoH]

Switch your bard head gear to allagan visor and tremor earrings to hero's

Great catch!