Ninja and int

Lemme start by clarifying that obviously dex is the only main stat you should focus on for gear and accessories for a ninja. Now...

So here I am slamming grade five critical materia into every piece of 240 gear that it can get it into, and I get to the pieces that are already crit capped. obviously determination would be the next best thing to put in, but i was curious if putting intelligence 5's could ever be a contender for increasing DPS against det.

Has anyone done the math of the weight of int vs determination for ninjas only in regards of materia melding? All I find is from 2.x where the only option for int replaces dex which is bad.

Ideas? Thoughts? Experiences? Graphs\charts?

Question I'd ask is if INT would boost your magic attacks or are your magic attacks scaled off of DEX? If scaled off of Dex adding on Intelligence is going to be pointless. Plus although it has diminishing returns Det still affects your DoT damage.

Not a Ninja expert though so who knows.

No. Int does nothing for NIN.

Yes, most ninjutsu are magic attack but scaled on DEX
Just like DRG Geirskogul is magic based on STR

But as magic attack they gain from foe requiem

Int is a stat moreso geared towards that of blm and smn as example (but we do not meld that, lol)
Best bet is to stick with Crit and add some determination.

The only primary you can considete melding because it always help
Is VIT in accessories XD

Because staying alive help to dps

Meld a bunch of int and see what happens

I've done testing with DRK and all their magic attacks do nothing with extra Int, but do increase in power with added Vit/Str.
In that respect, and with others stating as such, I'd imagine Int does not increase the damage done by mudra attacks at all.

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Originally Posted by Nekotee

Yes, most ninjutsu are magic attack but scaled on DEX
Just like DRG Geirskogul is magic based on STR

But as magic attack they gain from foe requiem

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Geirskogul is piercing damage and is not affected by Requiem.

I tested this back in 2.x ninjutsu is effected by DEX not INT, easy to test, equip a bunch of INT accessories and do raiton, unequip them and do it again and you will do similar damage. The in game tooltips are kind of stupid at this point, Since not all magic attacks work off magic attack and thus are not effected by INT, DRK spells for example work based on attack, ninjutsu is based on attack, clemency is based on attack. They should seriously just overhaul the status screen at this point because most of the tooltips are misleading or just outdated.

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Originally Posted by Nekotee

Yes, most ninjutsu are magic attack but scaled on DEX
Just like DRG Geirskogul is magic based on STR

But as magic attack they gain from foe requiem

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Its actually a STR based ranged attack, not magic, again fairly easy to test, go into void ark and on sawtooth, whichever one is immune to magic use geriskogul on it and you'll do damage, whichever is immune to ranged use geriskogul and it will do 0.

Ninjutsu is buffed by foe but geriskogul is not.