What are you spending your Poetics on first?

[LucentLagombi]

Drg body. Det and enough acc to not worry about the cap for a long long time? Yeah.

[Synestr]

Drg body. Det and enough acc to not worry about the cap for a long long time? Yeah.

YOU R NOT TANKS!!

^.^

[SirTaint]

The i90 Crafted accessories are still amazing. Wootz will be left in the dust very shortly.

That being said, what wootz piece would you acquire first in addition to your first poetic purchase?

DW Feet come from Turn10, but Poetic are BiS.
DW Hands come from Turn11, Poetic may more may not be BiS based on ACC.
Not sure on any other DW drops yet.

Wootz body is about equal to Ironworks i120. (6str vs 20det,29crit,10acc) So that would be a good start.
Wootz Legs vs i120 Ironworks is (6str ~11acc vs 29 det) So again close in favor of ironworks (2 weeks of poetic tomes)
Wootz Head would be 3str 27 crit vs 8det so Ironworks is better.


Tough call overall but Wootz body and legs are safe buys once Melded (used IV for 100% slots, IIIs for the rest for comparisons)

Ironworks easy buys are Feet,Belt then Head.

Shield is good if you don't have HA or Nexus or if you are getting the T11 oil.

[Kiara]

They've put Parry onto A LOT of the new Poetics gear, which is a shame as its been proven to be such a wasted stat. I've not seen the stats on the Dreadwyrm stuff yet, but hopefully I can continue to chop and change to maximise Det and Crit (Warrior).

Yah. Who knows? Now that Yoshi P announced Dark Knight as the next Tank and it focuses on Parry, perhaps the Dev Team will finally adjust / improve Parry to be a more powerful stat (one can hope). I'm all for giving us more meaningful Stats to mess around with and Theorycraft / Min-Max / Get Interesting Alternate Builds.

[SirTaint]

Yeah I think 3.0 will be a major overhaul with gear.

Maybe with battles as well. The current fights make parry very useless.

[LukeyP666]

Yeah maybe they'll overhaul Parry a bit once Dark Knight hits. But even so, the Poetics gear will probably be all redundant by the time 3.0 hits anyway. EVERY Poetics accessory has Parry on it. I even re-melded my Relic to get rid of the 44 Parry that I had on it originally.

I do really like the look of the Poetics set though. Like the futuristic feel to it and still definitely buying the body first. Might actually go for the head second as it looks epic haha.

[RadRyder]

I'm definitely getting the shield first, since I want to replace my Soldiery shield as soon as possible (I hate its low block rate).

[Giantbane]

Yah. Who knows? Now that Yoshi P announced Dark Knight as the next Tank and it focuses on Parry, perhaps the Dev Team will finally adjust / improve Parry to be a more powerful stat (one can hope). I'm all for giving us more meaningful Stats to mess around with and Theorycraft / Min-Max / Get Interesting Alternate Builds.

I wish parry was replaced by a stat that gave parry & resistance to all elements. Would at least be usable in all fights instead of parry currently being useless vs. magic heavy fights (aside from having debatable benefit during physical heavy fights).

[xvshanevx]

Full tank with the assumption that ACC will be needed to be around 525-535, and my ideal BiS for non-progression, non-savage runs
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/O6S0

Determining on how well my healers can handle a Pally with 8800-9000 health in FCoB I'll probably go with this build (I will be using the ilvl 130 DPS bracelet and ring to up damage and avoid needless Parry)
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/O6S7

If these are the sub-standard for BiS, including RNG factors with FCoB and just what we learn in the process, my buy order as off right now is looking something like this:
1 - Boots
2 - Helm
3 - Ring

And hopefully by the time I finish the ring our static will be entering FCoB.


Now, to those who will say that "chest and pants are first buy because more VIT/STR!"
I know. They have more of our primary stats. But I always use POE on what I will keep the longest and what is BiS or close to BiS. The chest, legs, choker, earrings, bracelet, and secondary ring are garbage in comparison to FCoB drops, when considering that Parry is a wasted stat. In other words, how shitty would it be if you spent 825 POE on the chest, only to have it drop a week or two later in FCoB? ya, POE better spent.

[Illya]

Anybody have comments on what WAR should spend Poetics on first?