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Puro wouldn't it be better to meld the robe with accuracy instead of determination? Reason being - determinations value , while remaining at .20, actually keeps decreasing as your average damage increases since crit & spell speed continue to gain in value.

My thinking is that if you slot accuracy this gives you more options to use pieces with Crit & Spell speed instead of needing to focus on the accuracy cap. The robe has quite a bit of accuracy when melded for it. Personally I'd rather have a robe with 33 crit, 33 accuracy & 34 spell speed over 33 crit, 33 det and 34 spell speed.

Our other gears are plagued with accuracy I don't think any Black Mage will realistically have accuracy issues.

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Our other gears are plagued with accuracy I don't think any Black Mage will realistically have accuracy issues.

Oh I'm not saying its necessarily hard to reach the cap BUT ideally you want as many pieces with Crit and spell speed as the 2 secondary stats as opposed to say accuracy/det or other combinations that aren't crit/ss. Basically you'd want to avoid pieces with any determination when you can. By sacrificing the det on the robe it allows you to get more crit/ss which would be a dps increase depending on your set up. For the pie issue going Lala means trading Int for Pie (I'm dusk elezen so max int) - why sacrifice intellect when you can get the pie via food in place of the 3 star food which gives det?