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Again you're assuming they won't have their own set of gear. What better way to revitalize old content than by adding new gear for the new class?

Since they did say to keep your melee DD gear around.

Developers can be weird. I'm not saying they couldn't include ROG on the same list as MNK, but remember that they could easily be referring to pre-50 and handmade gear. You know, the gear already shared between MNK and BRD? It's kind of a no brainer that NIN will be using that gear as well at least until 50.

The keyword though is "melee". They literally used the word melee. STR affects physical melee damage.