Why no SpS on BLM tome weapon? Again?!

If it were any other job, I wouldn't have a problem at all. But having a crit/det weapon for BLM completely messes up my rotation. It was the same thing last tier. HiCrit/lowSpS would be completely acceptable.

Sorry for the rant, but I am really salty for losing over 400 SpS just to boost my damage. I don't wanna be that guy that skips the weapon and makes it hard for everyone else.

probably cuz the raid weapon has it

New trial/ savage weapon usually has BiS stats for everyone while crafter/ tome weapon is usually shit.
I feel you, I'll have to relearn some timings on some bosses and adjust my rotation but on the other hand, if the tome weapon had BiS stats, less people would farm ex/ savage weapon because tome would be "good enough" and replace ex weapon too fast.
I'll have to take it for higher dps but I'm not going to enjoy it. Ruby weapon stats are so much better.

Get the raid weapon, my guy.

Meanwhile, we're in an era where BLM can go faster, or slower, and benefit tremendously from all stats. It's not a bad weapon at all.

It's not "bad" but I get that it's annoying to adjust your rotation once you've mapped out a fight for your current SpS tier. And changing weapon is always a noticable change.

Given that you can still meld 120 sps on it if it'd result in gcd changes to 1.2 GCD and 1 GCD spells, it's honestly not that much slower as a singular piece.

GCD variance impacts the general flow of things more than 372-378 sps which is 14 speed tiers at 80 meaning 0.03-0.04s difference to the GCD. Most folk will not notice that difference, gcd mapping or no.

400 sps is like 0.15 gcd reduction, you are complaining about something extremely small. If they put the best stats on the easiest gear to obtain who would raid ? did you think about that ?

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Originally Posted by Adventica6

400 sps is like 0.15 gcd reduction, you are complaining about something extremely small. If they put the best stats on the easiest gear to obtain who would raid ? did you think about that ?

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...The people who want to kill the content?

I really dont understand why the tomestone weapon exist, for casual player/s the extreme weapon will be nice too (to be honest saw too many 430 weapon in expert stuff)

If you're not raiding savage then it literally does not matter.

Since Stormblood really they have failed on blm and to some extent Red Mage weapons.
It is like they had reversed the stats, giving Red Mage Spell Speed on the weapons.

Im pretty sure it's intended that way so you have to clear the savage tier if you want the BiS weapon

I think you'll be surprised if you believe they control item stats to that degree, even to the point of taking into account what the 'metagame' looks like. They barely know more about their own jobs than we do, and it's not like they hang out in the Balance discord and go "Oh looks like black mage players figured out that spellspeed is a good stat, we should put it on the raid weapon".

More likely they just have an algorithm that autofills each item with 2 of the possible substats, and ensure there aren't any duplicates at the same ilvl (e.g normal and crafted gear). They know no more about the fact that blm is the 'spellspeed' caster than they do about rdm and smn hating spellspeed. It's just random whether you get lucky with itemization some tiers or not.

Fun fact: Their algorithm goofed in Sigmascape and made the upgraded tome and raid weapon have the same weapon damage for some jobs. This was because the ilvl=wd table they used so happened to not have a step at that value. They had to fix it manually, see: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...6d290a6e0a20fe

Fun fact #2: Back in the last tier of Heavensward, the aiming bis was fortunate enough to have practically 0 skillspeed (which made the ranged jobs very happy). That only exacerbated the dominance of the ranged jobs at that time. In that same tier, summoner had a det + spellspeed book, the worst possible combination for them, and they just had to deal with it. While these factors are not huge, they influence the potential of each job at bis in that respective tier, and it can make balance look worse (or better) than it actually is depending on which jobs get lucky.

I do wonder how much they have been calibrating things of late though. I guess we'll see based on whether the final RDM/SMN weapons still remain Crit + x where x is not Speed.

I agree with Myron88, this isn't as intentional as everything thinks. WHM has peity on their raid weapon

WhM has piety on every weapon this tier, which does feel like an intentional (and frustrating) push towards that stat.

That said, BLM has a nice chunk of SpSpe on both the crafted and Ruby weapon, so the lack of it on the tome weapon probably wasn't intentional. And SpSpe really isn't ahead enough to make a noticeable difference and can even be melded if you want a set amount for your rotation that badly, unlike Piety which is 100% a dead stat in most cases.

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Originally Posted by Kabooa

...The people who want to kill the content?

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if you cant clear content because you're missing 400sps, then you have a bigger problem than missing a tiny amount of stats

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

WhM has piety on every weapon this tier, which does feel like an intentional (and frustrating) push towards that stat.

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Every healer has piety on every weapon this tier, as far as im aware.

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Originally Posted by Opheila

I really dont understand why the tomestone weapon exist, for casual player/s the extreme weapon will be nice too (to be honest saw too many 430 weapon in expert stuff)

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For us slowpokes who are still learning Shiva.