Bard BiS - Auroral Brias vs HA Breeches?

[Tharian]

You're welcome LillithCale

[Viridiana]

I have been trying forever to do a build where I hit my accuracy threshold and break 500 Crit and 300 Det. And you presented exactly what I was looking for.

Please, let me bake you a cake. T_T

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NTNT

Same accuracy, 65 more critical, 32 more determination, and 40 more skill speed, at the cost of 23 dexterity. Overall gain of 5.97 weight. Though, y'know, cutting your GCD by nearly .04 is gonna hurt the TP. . .

[Tharian]

I think I would rather stick with my build simply because I won't have to spend as much money on Materia Grafting. Though honestly my money will instead be deposited into melds in my Novus Weapon, but still, the Novus is a way better investment than the item level 90 crafted gear any day of the week.

[Viridiana]

I think I would rather stick with my build simply because I won't have to spend as much money on Materia Grafting. Though honestly my money will instead be deposited into melds in my Novus Weapon, but still, the Novus is a way better investment than the item level 90 crafted gear any day of the week.

Granted. Just pointing out the option.

[Taban]

what Viridiana said is more or less true. However what you end up choosing in the long run greatly depends on what other gear you have in your equipment list.

This is the BiS list that I am contemplating working with for my Bard:

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NSND

Bare in mind that the list I provided is the absolute end game Best In Slot and is what one would wear after completing all content. Also please note that the Judgement Ring of Aiming will be becoming Item Level 110 as of the update this evening, hence why I included it in my End Game Best In Slot list. I also included the Novus because although the High Allagan Weapon has a higher Item Level, the Novus Weapon actually will be better than the High Allagan once a few more updates take place.

Why are you running High Allagan Earring over Auroral?

[Tharian]

Why are you running High Allagan Earring over Auroral?

because with the Auroral Earring I would have 501 Accuracy. This is way more than is absolutely essential. Yes it would give me 538 Critical Hit Rate, but I really can't justify over doing the accuracy that much just for a boost in crit hit rating. That said, if the content in the new update is sufficient to raise the accuracy cap enough, then I will be replacing that earring with the Auroral Earring as it is just the most optimal piece to replace first and foremost.

[DishSoap]

because with the Auroral Earring I would have 501 Accuracy. This is way more than is absolutely essential. Yes it would give me 538 Critical Hit Rate, but I really can't justify over doing the accuracy that much just for a boost in crit hit rating. That said, if the content in the new update is sufficient to raise the accuracy cap enough, then I will be replacing that earring with the Auroral Earring as it is just the most optimal piece to replace first and foremost.

You should never give up damage stats because you have "to much accuracy".

[Drakuaza]

Let me just say this now.
Crit is an RNG stat that does not contribute at all to your DPS if it does not activate.

Determination is a permanent damage increase.

20 determination outweights by far the Crit from the HA pants.

The HA ring is better than the Ramuh Ring, the determination and accuracy is better. Pair it with the Black Truffle rissoto / buttons in a blanket, and you wont have to use horrible Crit/acc food like the cabbage.

By moving around stats, 499 or so crit, to 520. That is close to nothing. Instead of having about 32% crit rate, you will have 31%. Yeah. 32 is just as good as 31.

Look at this.
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NTQZ
576/486/499/352/401/467

Compared to this
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NSND
576/495/526/311/420/458

5 acc under the cap for t9? are you even doing it? I have crap ton of clears and I have yet to miss with 480 accuracy.

Dropping 25~ crit to gain 41 determination is well worth it. and that -5 accuracy is irrelevant. I once forgot to switch set and I ran t6-t9 with 470 accuracy and I had less than 10 misses.

To answer your question, if you have everything at your disposal, Soldery Legs are better.

If not, just use whatever you get your hands on first, then worry about fixing your secondary stats to your preferences.

[Tharian]

Drakuaza unfortunately you are operating under misinformation. Because of the way that the Bard operates, Critical Hit Rate is ALWAYS the superior stat for the Bard over Determination. Accuracy is the only stat other than the Primary Stat (Dexterity) that beats Critical Hit Rate in importance.

This is true because it is your Critical Hit Rate that determines how frequently your Damage over Time effects will actually score a critical hit. And it is only when your Damage over Time effects score a critical hit that you get extra Bloodletter procs. As such your Critical Hit Rate is superior to just about everything else. Thus the higher your Critical Hit Rate, the more Bloodletter Procs you get.

With your build you will be missing Bloodletter Procs, you will not be hitting your target as often as you should in Turn 9, and your attacks will happen at a slower rate of fire. Yes you will have the benefit that your attacks will do slightly higher base damage, but all told that is not a sufficient benefit when you are losing so much overall DPS because of vastly inferior stats.

[Jim_Berry]

I'm a huge sucker for DETERMINATION, but my BRD has been noted to suck anyway.