Mage melee gear

[Urthdigger]

Yes, one thing I've considered that may make melee mage more useful is to increase the usefulness of energy steal/energy drain, and moonlight/starlight. As it stands, mages don't get a useful MP restoring WS until quite late (66 for SMN and BLM, 70 for WHM and SCH), and by then it's well ingrained that mages are not meant to melee. On top of that, all of the WS would have to be useful enough that a mage wouldn't overly hurt their party by meleeing instead of resting. Otherwise, even with good melee gear they might be discouraged from meleeing simply because doing so means they cannot do their main role effectively.

[Karbuncle]

Empyrean Staff WS recovers large portions of MP

WHM-Mythic does so as well.

Both are quite useful

[Urthdigger]

Both of those are high end, high level staves. By then, a mage has been backlining for his entire career, and there is little incentive to start doing it now, especially with low skill. I'd rather mages be able to learn to do so early on, by having a reason to do so early on.

[Karbuncle]

I think they did underpower the MP recover WS's early on. a boost to those would be nice.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Well, those weaponskills do rely on you fighting a mob that has MP in the first place, the later ones (Boon and Myrkyr) don't, Spiritaker being able to miss despite being a seemingly magical Weaponskill is also kinda wtf.

[Inafking]

Empyrean Staff WS recovers large portions of MP

WHM-Mythic does so as well.

Both are quite useful

Okie dokey, then hand them out to everyone without haveing to go through the nightmare of trying to get them.

[Malamasala]

There's a melee RDM thread, and a melee SMN thread. Neither of which is highly regarded around these parts. All I have to say is good luck with this thread.

Semi on-topic: No.

I think the fact that they exist speak enough for melee mage armors. Makes more sense to add this, than to add something nobody is requesting.

[Bubeeky]

there may not be hundreds of threads about the subject, but there are still plenty of melee mages out there, enough to justify SE creating more sets of melee oriented mage gear at a higher level...as a melee mage myself, most of the gear that I have to use is at most lvl 75, and the numbers on the buffs it gives reflect that

[Karbuncle]

Okie dokey, then hand them out to everyone without haveing to go through the nightmare of trying to get them.

Empyrean Staff is rather Easy to get, you could probably make it in a week including the NM trials up to it. It takes a little dedication however.

WHM mythic WS is accessible to anyone who can take the time to complete Nyzul Isle, so its available to all WHM's!

Obtaining neither is really nightmarish at level 90... Nyzul maybe if you have no friends, because finding people for it is hard, but the Empyrean staff is simple, if only because you'll never have competition.

Hell you could likely find Sedna groups doing Zone win you could leech Tusks off of.

Don't even recall what this was a response too >_>

[Kristal]

Mystic's Hat
DEF:30 HP+50 STR+6 DEX+6
Double Attack +2%
Haste +5%
Set: Reduces Damage Taken
lv.96 WHM/RDM/BLM/SMN/PUP/SCH

Mystic's Tabard
DEF:58 STR+9 DEX+9
Triple Attack +2%
Haste +4%
Set: Reduces Damage Taken
Lv. 96 WHM/RDM/BLM/SMN/PUP/SCH

Mystic's Gloves
DEF:31 HP+50 Accuracy+15 Attack +15
Increases Critical hit Damage
Haste +4%
Set: Reduces Damage Taken
Lv. 96 WHM/RDM/BLM/SMN/PUP/SCH

Mystic's Slacks
DEF:51 HP+75 DEX+10
Accuracy +10 Attack+10
Haste+4%
Set: Reduces Damage Taken
Lv. 96 WHM/RDM/BLM/SMN/PUP/SCH

Mystic's Sabbots
DEF:31 STR+8 MND+8
Critical hit Rate +4%
Haste +4%
Set: Reduces Damage Taken
Lv. 96 WHM/RDM/BLM/SMN/PUP/SCH

*Set Bonus: Damage Taken -4% for 2 pieces, +2 for each after (total -10%)
*This set would give 21% Haste, Only needing Goading Belt to cap 26%
*"Increases Critical hit Damage" on hands is +10%, same as WAR+2 Feet.

Fixed job list.