Items Database Updated! - Are the new weapons worth it?

[zdub303]

there are only two other factors that could have caused such a drastic increase. the Item Level. and the quality going from green to blue.

i am also not sure if having green or pink or blue or even purple makes any difference.

You are arriving to the right conclusion but in the wrong way. Item level will dictate the stat caps for each of those weapons, the ifrit cane cane has a higher stat cap on the 'magic damage' stat as you comment in your post. The fact is, magic damage(weapon damage for physical dps) is the highest priority stat for healing and damage. So high in fact that its weighted somewhere around 8-10 times more than your primary stat (MND in the case of you healing).

So 7 more magic damage equates to approximately 56-70 more points of MND. That is why your Cure I increases in potency so much.

Determination is weighted around 0.20-0.25 compared to MND for healing.

onion shield seems useful, doesn't have skill speed on it.

The real question is... do we still want lantern shields at this point or are kite shields superior? The block rate and block strength on Holy Shield and Onion Shield are very different