Quote Originally Posted by monkguy View Post

dont forget about the fuma one, it's statistically stronger than melee, and far easier to obtain than a turn 5 drop some monks may never see.
Fuma is low on str vs melee. Sadly primary starts are worth way more than secondary stats.

Always keep in mind that BiS does not mean the absolute best item for that specific slot but all the slots combined. If you where to BiS each piece whithout looking at the entire setup you would be using mostly Allagan. You would also be missing a lot of acc and that would be bad.

Weapon damage >>>>>>>>>>>>> STR/ACC cap >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DET/CRIT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SS

Why?

Damage formulas put weapon damage ahead of Str by about the same amount that Str is ahead of det/crit... its that good. ACC is important because every miss is a massive loss in dps, risk of buff/debuff loss, and really annoying to deal with. Determination is over crit even though you don't get as much of it because we one ability that always crits and a cooldown with high uptime that greatly increases our crit... in other words crit doesn't effect everything we do and Det does.

SS has a couple problems. One is that it doesn't effect auto attacks which are a good deal of damage for us. Another is that it increases the rate at which we burn through our TP which can lead to other problems. There are fights like Ifrit HM where SS is pretty good because of the constant resetting of GL but I am not going to make a set of gear heavy on SS for very rare fights where it isn't the worst stat.