SMN Novus and Piety?

[NintenPyjak64]

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The only fight I've had to ask for songs is T8 and I'm using my entire arsenal there because I need to output high DPS. I do my best to prevent having to use Aetherflow for Energy Drain and at this point my Bard knows the perfect time to play his song, though I will say in the past I've been hesitant about asking and resulted in my struggling badly for MP. Also I've never had to raise that much if at all in serious fights. My healers are awesome and my team does it's best to avoid AoEs and the like, but I always leave myself open as a back up raise for major "Oh shit" moments. I think the last time I raised as SMN was during a T9 practice run.

I could also add that Crit/det are our 2 most important stats, det to raise our DoT's damage and crit to occasionally deal higher damage (1.8k crits with my Garuda's fully buffed Enkindle makes it so worth it). No amount of Piety is going to make up for the loss of crit/det. As for how much you'd get, 1 PIE = 8 MP, you'll only get 248 which is not much at all considering the costs of some of our skills

On another note this game was built with cookie cutter in mind (considering it took from WoW which integrated cookie cutter into it's system to prevent cookie cutter builds from ignoring other specs), so hybrid builds really don't work very well at all (aside from STR DPS WAR for SCoB which can also tank at the same time but that's needed if your MT can't solo tank)