The Ninja Superthread

[Dervy]

Let's be realistic here, even though using crafted gear has always been part of the BiS, not everyone can afford to get their perfect penta-melds. If anything, they should be in their own seperate list and be an option for those who do desperately want the absolute highest DPS, regardless of cash.

[Best-MNK-NA]

Let's be realistic here, even though using crafted gear has always been part of the BiS, not everyone can afford to get their perfect penta-melds. If anything, they should be in their own seperate list and be an option for those who do desperately want the absolute highest DPS, regardless of cash.

I suppose that's true, but as a newbie I had no idea and never saw crafted items mentioned in any BIS lists. Had I known that certain crafted pieces were things I could (or should) have been seeking out, I would absolutely have done so. Now I know how to figure things out myself, but if there had ever been a MNK guide or post anywhere that made it clear that the Saurian Belt could indeed be BIS (for instance) then that would have been extremely helpful information for a min/maxer like myself.

As I said in my previous post, the idea of having separate tiers of BIS list based on the amount of gil you're willing to spend seems ideal to me. I have the one crafted belt and a less than ideal crafted hat (I loaded it with skillspeed since the materia's so cheap, item cost about 800k total for me and I needed to drop accuracy to accommodate the poetics weapon) and that's all I'll probably buy (especially since no other crafted pieces is that much superior to 130 drops), but they're once again on my radar for possible upgrades thanks to Virdania.

I also don't think a "pre-t13 BIS list" has any relevance since it isn't actually BIS at all and you'd be foolish to spend your poetics catering to that list as opposed to actual BIS, but hey if people think it's useful then by all means go for it. You progress by getting random drops in coil, supplementing by buying poetics gear that is true BIS first and making up accuracy with food or shifting around your outdated gear (110s in this patch), not by shooting for a theoretical "almost BIS but not really" and then having to aim for a whole different gearset when you finally get your BIS weapon drop.