Haste and You... A guide to the misinformed.

[Gokku]

if it was .5 off its a 2% damage difference

25 *capped* = 133%
24.5 = 131%

so its a matter of gear choices i dont think the 7 str /4 attack is going to add an extra 2% to my damage i KNOW the 1% haste will.

[Leonlionheart]

Most people talking about 26 % haste don't know their subject. The vast majority of the gear are better than the last 1% because it's not 1%. Best case scenario, it is 0.5%.

Most cases where you're capping haste at 26% is where you're using a Blitz Ring. Most other jobs it's a clear advantage to be using other gear.

The only argument where gear would be better than 26% is when your a non-black belt MNK, using brown belt trying to fit enough haste in to TP w/ +2 feet (requiring Tiercel Necklace). I think +2 feet is the only piece of gear that will increase your DPS more than that .x% haste. However losing 1.x% haste is not worth it as far as I'm aware.

[Rayik]

Sorry I'm late to the party, just started looking around the forums and found this thread. Since Abyssea came out, even my casual-player style has been able to get my hands on some nice haste gear for my jobs, and the difference is incredible. When I first started playing this game, I thought haste was overrated(mostly because I didn't have any). Now that I've got some of my melee jobs to 26% haste, I can see it firsthand and wow, what a difference.

[MarkovChain]

Most cases where you're capping haste at 26% is where you're using a Blitz Ring. Most other jobs it's a clear advantage to be using other gear.

The only argument where gear would be better than 26% is when your a non-black belt MNK, using brown belt trying to fit enough haste in to TP w/ +2 feet (requiring Tiercel Necklace). I think +2 feet is the only piece of gear that will increase your DPS more than that .x% haste. However losing 1.x% haste is not worth it as far as I'm aware.

Usukane sune-ate beats the crap out of fuma.

[Ravenmore]

On my blu i'm at 26% haste but can't change out gear with out going below 25% that would be better then just macroing it in i.e homam pants. If you at 25% no only retards will look down on you.

[Cursed]

I actually debated on whether or not to put it at 25% or 26% because technically the cap IS 25%

The haste on gear that add up to that are not all accurately displayed. (As you stated)

The discrepancy is in the gear, not the cap.

Edit:
Btw thank you all for the input, I read this over like 30 times and fact checked my math and stuff.. But it's hard to get everything. I appreciate it.

Thanks for the useful post. Bookmarked.

[Karbuncle]

Sorry I'm late to the party, just started looking around the forums and found this thread. Since Abyssea came out, even my casual-player style has been able to get my hands on some nice haste gear for my jobs, and the difference is incredible. When I first started playing this game, I thought haste was overrated(mostly because I didn't have any). Now that I've got some of my melee jobs to 26% haste, I can see it firsthand and wow, what a difference.

I hope you're being serious!

Cause thats exactly what we want to hear here ^^

[Leonlionheart]

Usukane sune-ate beats the crap out of fuma.

herp derp only when it caps haste

[Melraen]

Wow... While I knew Haste was good, I didn't actually realise how much of an effect it had! I remember reading up on the Haste caps in my later levels of Bard, but I didn't really look into it much more. Thanks so much Frost for such an informative thread!
I'm actually motivated to seek out a few more pieces of Haste gear for my Dragoon now! I think I have about 13% or so. >.>; I also noticed someone mentioned only equipping a few pieces of the Perle set when you didn't have other means to get more Haste was stupid, and that's kinda what I've been doing... /blush I feel so silly now. ^^;

[Mirage]

Wow... While I knew Haste was good, I didn't actually realise how much of an effect it had! I remember reading up on the Haste caps in my later levels of Bard, but I didn't really look into it much more. Thanks so much Frost for such an informative thread!
I'm actually motivated to seek out a few more pieces of Haste gear for my Dragoon now! I think I have about 13% or so. >.>; I also noticed someone mentioned only equipping a few pieces of the Perle set when you didn't have other means to get more Haste was stupid, and that's kinda what I've been doing... /blush I feel so silly now. ^^;

Swift belt + full perle should put you at 18% right off the bat, so that's a good place to start I guess. Change from Swift belt to Bullwhip belt and you're at 21% already. Until you can get more than 14% haste in your 5 visible armor slots, you should probably just TP in full perle, yeah. It might make you look a bit noobish, but everyone's got to start somewhere, right?