Current BIS for Bard

[Deadcell1453]

What is the current BIS for bard now that we have new items introduced?

[xcifux]

What new items ?

[BrandoH]

Allagan Bow
Allagan Visor
Bard's Shirt
Bard's Gloves
Hero's Belt
Allagan Pants
Allagan Boots
Allagan Necklace
Hero's Earrings
Inferno Bangle
Hero's Ring
Vortex Ring

HQ Deviled Eggs

482 Acc 555 Crit 244 Det 412 Skill Speed

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Best set I've found so far while tweaking pieces at http://www.ariyala.com/ffxiv/gear.html , but requires two T5 drops, two T4 drops, and the EM Ifrit loot.

[Lecreuset]

Switch your bard head gear to allagan visor and tremor earrings to hero's

[Ranzan]

(Fresh lvl50 bard here) I have a few questions to the seasoned bards here. First what would be the better bow between the Artemis Zenith or Elfin bow? Secondly i just hit 50 what would be the biggest upgrade for bard from AF armor?

[Thorauku]

(Fresh lvl50 bard here) I have a few questions to the seasoned bards here. First what would be the better bow between the Artemis Zenith or Elfin bow? Secondly i just hit 50 what would be the biggest upgrade for bard from AF armor?

Forget Zenith, you can actually settle with Artemis Bow, or better yet, Titan Bow, then crawl your way upto Allagan Bow or Elfin Bow.

[BrandoH]

Switch your bard head gear to allagan visor and tremor earrings to hero's

Great catch!

[BrandoH]

(Fresh lvl50 bard here) I have a few questions to the seasoned bards here. First what would be the better bow between the Artemis Zenith or Elfin bow? Secondly i just hit 50 what would be the biggest upgrade for bard from AF armor?

Regular Artemis Bow is enough to get you through the endgame raid just fine.

Max your Grand Company rank and get the lv 55 bow from there. Grind out your Darklight gear immediately, and don't forget to get your weekly piece of Crystal Tower gear! If you grind your tomes for Darklight in Haukke Manor and Copperbell Mines hard modes, you can get some lv 60 pieces to fill in until you have the darklight. After you have full darklight (any darklight piece is replaceable with the Crystal Tower loot) and your GC bow, start doing your relic quest. After that, you're ready to start raiding.

For myth purchases, the BIS piece you can get from myth are listed above, any of those are fine purchases.

[CatholicFan]

Why would you take the Vortex Ring when you can penta-meld an HQ Gryphonskin? On mine, I put VIT IV, 2x Savage Aim III, 2x Savage Might III. That gives my ring

DEX 9
Accuracy 12
Skill Speed 9
VIT 8
Crit 12
Det 8

I would have thought the loss of 4 DEX is more than offset by gaining a point of Crit and 8 points of Determination. Plus, the 12 Accuracy on this allows me to take better choices in other slots, like Bard's Chapeau over Allagan Visor of Aiming. Now, I'm gaining another 6 points of Crit without sacrificing any accuracy (I'm actually still up 6 points of Accuracy). I haven't played around too much with the other slots, but HQ Gryphonskin still seems to be a BiS to me.

[BrandoH]

4 Dex 7 SkSp > 7 Crit 8 Det, and BIS list has no wasted accuracy. Vit is 100% negligible considering the amount of HP you have in full 90 + allagan weapon.