Bard Darklight Gear - A Joke?

All you should be looking at is the stat increase. It doesn't matter if it has more accuracy as long as it has better stat.
Dex is top stat (with a 1:4~ ratio compared to secondary)
Skill Speed is useless for us.

With that in mind, every part of DL is the best in slot before iLevel 70 HQ craft

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Originally Posted by Thotor

All you should be looking at is the stat increase. It doesn't matter if it has more accuracy as long as it has better stat.
Dex is top stat (with a 1:4~ ratio compared to secondary)
Skill Speed is useless for us.

With that in mind, every part of DL is the best in slot before iLevel 70 HQ craft

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Got a link for the set?

Bear in mind that the statistics in Final Fantasy are quite strange compared to other MMOs. Stats on gear matter surprisingly little, in fact. +1 damage on your main weapon can be equivalent to 50 of your primary stat. Your primary stat can add 3 times as much DPS as any secondary stat.

Obviously for minmaxing there are differences, but when it comes to gearing you can't go too far wrong with just choosing whatever item has the highest Dex on it as that will almost always come with the highest defense, vit and overall secondary stats. Don't mourne the accuracy too much.

Also if you're being told you arent doing enough DPS in -Amdapor Keep- when you have a -Relic- weapon, either there's something drastically wrong with your rotation, or (likely) it's pure trolling from then. With that weapon, you should be outdpsing people even if you wore levle 40 white gear in other slots.

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Originally Posted by Maxu

yeah darklight is mediocre but head, body, feet are good. Work to replace pants with Relic and gloves with gryphon skin hands(though you'll probably want to grab Gryphon body first.)

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Frankly you should jump straight from Toxotes legs to AF2 unless you want to wear melded crafted i70 gear in between. Darklight pants are a sidegrade/downgrade, save your tomes.

Accuracy you wanna be at is 460. Build around that and get your crit/dex/det up.

Darklight set is pretty good I have all of them except the gloves and pants(I'm using AF2), I still have toxotes gloves coz of the crit. In total I have around 478 accuracy and from what I saw from another thread discussing about it you need about 472 to not miss in coil. then I recently got Allagan bracers and lost some accuracy got me to 466. I actually missed a blunt arrow once because of that and the group got hit by high voltage

Also you'll notice that the other AF2 gears don't have much Accuracy but alot of crit so you should be thankful right now for the accuracy you have in the darklight set. When I grab another AF2 gear or get lucky and win an allagan aiming w/e that doesn't have accuracy I'll probably grab the DL gloves that has 16.

Not to mention the Vit def and magic def it gives. I'm close to 4k HP with it. Just worrying about your dps is kind of stupid IMO especially with all the aoe damage you'll be taking

Speaking of Allagan, it is a pretty worthless set. Only boots and necklace are good. The rest is full of wasted stat (skill speed) or inferior to AF2.

Just get crafted gears then. Problem solved.

Most physical dps needs 141 accuracy on top of your natural for coil but I've heard bards get like a 20 percent buff or something which makes them need very little. Yet another reason bard is the best endgame dps by far.

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Originally Posted by Sindri_Myr

I was doing AK today and got scolded because i wasnt doing enough dps. Mind you i have a relic and full AK gear (Still didnt go for DL, im sitting on 1900 tomes atm trying to figure out if i REALLY want to spend them on BRD gear).
I feel like im gonna reroll to BLM very soon, im so sick with these trolls. IM SORRY I DONT CRIT FOR 1.8k MKAY??

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With that gear you should be doing around 150dps in AK.