Dancer Gear

They said Dancer will be a ranged DPS so it'll use Bard / Machinist gear right? Not Ninja?

I don't believe they said. I wouldn't be surprised if it shares with mch or brd since you will probably still only want one phys range per group. However I do see where this would be a problem come 24 man time.

Yoshida said that it wasn't really a straightforward answer and will be covered when they talk about the overhauls to the battle systems in May.

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Originally Posted by Daralii

Yoshida said that it wasn't really a straightforward answer and will be covered when they talk about the overhauls to the battle systems in May.

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That makes it sound like it's going to use Monk gear... which... I mean... Logically the more STR you have the stronger you could throw something I guess...

*Buys Shire Aiming gear anyway*

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Originally Posted by Burningskull

That makes it sound like it's going to use Monk gear... which... I mean... Logically the more STR you have the stronger you could throw something I guess...

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Q: What will Dancer's main stat be?

A: Since it's a ranged DPS, probably DEX, since the gear is already compatible.

So I am leaning towards aiming like the other 2.

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Originally Posted by Burningskull

That makes it sound like it's going to use Monk gear... which... I mean... Logically the more STR you have the stronger you could throw something I guess...

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My guess is that they plan to consolidate gear into VIT/STR/DEX/INT/MND instead of having very specific subsets that have become redundant, like Maiming(originally had less magic defense, changed in ARR when dragoons would instantly die to raid-wide AoE that other jobs survived) and Scouting(originally had different defenses than Aiming, changed in either ARR or HW).

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Originally Posted by Daralii

My guess is that they plan to consolidate gear into VIT/STR/DEX/INT/MND instead of having very specific subsets that have become redundant, like Maiming(originally had less magic defense, changed in ARR when dragoons would instantly die to raid-wide AoE that other jobs survived) and Scouting(originally had different defenses than Aiming, changed in either ARR or HW).

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That would be nice. It's already done that way with accessories (specifically Slaying and Aiming) so it seems weird to me that left-side gear has the extra layer of split.

Having different defence values doesn't seem like a good justification to me. The armour value of each job can always be tweaked on passive trait/defensive CD/proc/stance level. Give dragoon +x% more defence from worn gear and it might as well switch to Striking gear and not feel any difference.

And it's not like they can make the gap between various non-tanks' armour classes large enough to matter anyways since everyone's gear has to be tuned around an average so they take roughly similar damage that is healable at roughly the same rate at a given ilvl.

(But really my agenda is just wishing gearing up alt jobs wouldn't eat up so many tomestones)

A part of me wants it to share gear with NIN, but most likely it will share with BRD/MCH. The reason i want it to share gear with NIN is so it would make playing NIN easier. For example i was going to main DRG at first. But knowing that it doesn't share gear with anything really put me off. Its why i chose SAM instead. I can at least play MNK because its as geared as my SAM. NIN not being able to share gear with anything just sucks because if i gear up NIN i can only play NIN.

Kind of a sloppy post i'm tired lol, hopefully it at least made some sense.

Going forward they should just change ninja to use monk/samurai gear. It'd save them a lot of work, and ninja is no more aesthetically distinct from monk/samurai than they are to each other.