Why more haste?

[Superchicken]

twilight belt over a black belt LOL, do you even have monk leveled?

[Musahashi]

Speaking of this haste cap, anyone noticed they did the same with +acc?

In all honesty, I can see why they did it. Empyrean isn't going to be level 99 gear, but there will be pieces you will use. Think about the next line of gear they're going to bring in, that might need the extra +haste or +acc that some of your empyrean will bring in.

Monk is a gear based job, I have 3 armour sets that I swap between throughout battle, so the full benefit of any full set will never be seen unless I decided to just sit and autoattack for the duration of a pty, but then your losing out on so much of mnk.

So guys, pick and choose, complain if you want to, at the end of the day it isn't going to matter. Either you forget about full sets and start working on the gear you need for certain weapon skills/abilities, or you accept that they're never going to bring out a full set that makes using macros redundant.

[Cupofnoodles]

Why oh why that hands have haste+ on it beats me?

makes your fist hit the mob faster??? lol

[Cream_Soda]

makes your fist hit the mob faster??? lol

You can cap haste w/o the hand slot (and have been able to since before the update they were added)

[Martinius]

Yes, sorry I was referring to the elemental belts. Yes, their effect is cumulative.

[Tezz]

In the instance of a lesser MNK where blackbelt is out of reach, then i can sorta understand this. Perhaps they are a brand new player or a mule.

This is the best i can come up with in terms of favoring all AF3+2
(25% uncapped. without the remainder)
AF head+2: 7
AF legs+2: 7
Twilight: 7
Hands+2: 3
Neck: 1

Any math wizards care to see if the +2 justifies the last remaining haste % or not?

[Cream_Soda]

In the instance of a lesser MNK where blackbelt is out of reach, then i can sorta understand this. Perhaps they are a brand new player or a mule.

This is the best i can come up with in terms of favoring all AF3+2
(25% uncapped. without the remainder)
AF head+2: 7
AF legs+2: 7
Twilight: 7
Hands+2: 3
Neck: 1

Any math wizards care to see if the +2 justifies the last remaining haste % or not?

Legs are 6, which puts you at 24%

Use brown belt

[Corres]

not a mule here but KS99 drops are so damn rare. needing the egg badly but not willing to pay 3 million gil for that.

[GERM]

Well that is darn great because the poeple that worked for it to gain that item is just a waste of time
for them.

Anything pre abyssea is being considered a waste of time.. I read in a post today from SqEnix that they will not reduce the requirements for BB because raising the level cap has already did this but they are thinking of possibly bringing in a belt that is better then BB.. Now yes if you got BB before abyssea was released then no it wasn't a waste of time because it helped and even though you get it now its still a hard piece to get but it is still worth getting in that it gives more options to other slots and yes everything was hard to get before abyssea at some point in time but if it wasn't worth getting would you really wasted your time to get it?

[Tezz]

Legs are 6, which puts you at 24%

Use brown belt

This shit setup is not for me. It was for a hypothetical newb Monk that might be trying to justify a twilight belt. Basically, the only excuse is being dirt poor(not even an excuse) or too lazy to quest brown/black.

My Monk has Black Belt. Camped it with LS. I'm actually interested in SE's idea of creating an item "More Powerful than Black Belt". Can't wait to see what they're doing.