Beyond Black Belt

[Bloodkraft]

I some martial arts there is a Red belt after black, mostly used for grandmasters and only 1 person may hold it.

Most likely it will be a lvl 99 belt in the future.

[Arcon]

I some martial arts there is a Red belt after black, mostly used for grandmasters and only 1 person may hold it.

Most likely it will be a lvl 99 belt in the future.

Kinda would be fun if only one person could hold it ingame too.

[Alderin]

Can't fix what isn't broken. BB is and probably will always be superior.

STR+7 nearly made me decide not to bother with a Beir belt. (Beir has the highest STR in a belt).
Haste +12% - nothing comes close.
Subtle Blow +5 - although not game breaking, still helps.
PDT-5% - There is very little gear that offers both Haste & PDT-. None in a waist slot.

Nothing will be better - nor does this need to be any better. In regards to the OP - yes it essentially is a relic piece for MNK.

[Gokku]

i wouldnt mind the 99 version being

10str
15 haste
10 sub
5-8% DT

and the quest from moogles requires 25 items that are rare/ex and stack and drop low % off KB NID and aspid...

the belt would be nigh impossable to get and broken as hell if you do have it.

[firelurker456]

Black belt needs a hidden ability to increase guard rate.... that would be the best.

[FrankReynolds]

Edit : Ha! Posted in the wrong thread.

[Monchat]

Can't fix what isn't broken. BB is and probably will always be superior.

STR+7 nearly made me decide not to bother with a Beir belt. (Beir has the highest STR in a belt).

Beir belt also has -DEX, which makes it bad outside abyssea. One day people will realize beir belt +1, heafoc mitts, calmecac and similar items that only improve max damage and not consistency of hits, reduce their damage instead of improving it, when you don't have cruor buffs ( on anything ~7+ level above you). I feel already bad with my -30 accuracy on ws ( i.e 30 less accuracy than the TP set), and at -50 with those items its just bad. So for the belt slot for me its either black belt ( trash mobs) or anguinus belt (VT+).

[Concerned4FFxi]

I like the idea presented as the grand master's red belt, however one person per server to possess it would be a little unfair, what if once a month there's a tournament held in pvp or something, and the winner gets their blackbelt augmented to red belt for that month only and it resets every month. Hell, i'd even go just to watch the tournament. Could even award the belt to the top 5 per server, it could be a five day affair like the holiday events, once every three months instead of once a month and for five days there's a winner per day that gets the temporary upgraded black belt for the next 3 months until the next tournament. To enter you would have to have mnk 75+ with bb equipped.

On a side note, I wouldn't be opposed to bb or apoc (drk relic weapon) being the only two items in game that break the current haste cap, similiar to pld mythic weapon or pld relic shield exceeding their respective caps.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Merge them all into a rainbow belt!

[Reiterpallasch]

Kinda would be fun if only one person could hold it ingame too.

Oh god, please no. Not because I think extremely rare items are bad though. That's fine.

It's because I can already see the guy who gets it now:
Ohat, aurore body/hands/legs, dune boots, /DNC, and a Blacker Belt™