Why more haste?

[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)

[Rambus]

edit: i r teh dumb. you'll get more consistent results with black belt or an elemental belt, but twilight gives potential for spikes.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Light_Belt
you mean those not the obis right? when i hear "elemental belt" my mind goes to black mage, maybe cuz i am mage main.

but obis can help ya do more sc damage >XD

i love light belt and light torque, works with sooo meny ws.

umm, they stack right?

[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?

[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.

[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

[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.

[Darka]

Except thats not what I am talking about at all, and I dont appreciate you twisting my words to fit your point of view.

If all you care about is DD, then twilight is better. If you are tanking and DDing yes BB would be better, but that is not what I said. Think what you want but dont change my posts to say what you want them to.

DD alone Twilight > BB, tanking/dding, yes BB is better.

I am talking about 1 piece of gear not a whole suit, not what you might have to change here and there, a straight up comparison of A vs B.

Wow, so in just a comparison between belts, you think 2% DA beats 5% Haste? Really? Never mind the 7STR and 3~4attack.

@OP, you need 26% Haste in gear to hard cap, due to rounding (each piece of % gear in the game is slightly lower than what it says by a small fraction, often rounding you out to about 24.6% Haste).
If you were to drop say, feet so you can cap Haste w/ Twilight and say, Usukane, you'd still weaken your DPS.

[Cowardlybabooon]

Admittedly, I did not read all 4 pages of the posts, so someone may have said this. However, there was a long standing debate for MNK whether Dune boots beat Fuma Kyahan. With the addition of haste on the hands, now one can wear AF3+2 feet, and get a nice boost to kick attacks damage, which will be further enhanced by multiple peices of MNK AF3+2 armor.

The simple answer is, it gives versatility. Attack and Acc are becoming useless stats in many cases as well, and people are turning to Crit DMG+ and Crit+. The combination of Atma, Food, Temp Items, and Cruor Buffs, as well as the 900 Job Abilities that MNK/WAR gets are making the original stats rather obsolete. SE has been smart enough to add new stat enhancements to make sure we stay active in getting new gear.