Look at my BRD chest with Crit and Det

[Donjo]

I highly doubt SE designs a piece of gear with the idea that it will be Best in Slot. If they really cared about what stats players like best on their gear, they'd stop doing things like putting what people believe is the worst stat to have on the best weapon of patch(case in point being Dreadwyrm Grimoire having Spell Speed). Best in Slot isn't a title that SE assigns; it's a title that players assign. What we have instead are merely options, and having full i130 + the Accuracy cap is always more than enough to curbstomp every piece of content in the game.

It's not in the translated notes we were given, but one of my FC members pre-translated Live Letter XVIII for us way back when and it was directly mentioned there that US/EU largely prefers using Crit/Det while Japan largely prefers using Skill/Spell Speed. Funny how Japan is still pushing content despite the "useless" stat, huh? Either way, both translations I have mention intent to make Skill and Spell speed better regardless of this.

Here's a quote from what we were given for Live Letter XVIII

With that said though, devotion to raid equipment alone would take away the value of poetics equipment and crafted equipment, so we’ve allocated various stats so that players can choose the equipment they want to use with the needed stats.

They want us to have a choice, not be pigeonholed into one set of gear or another by stats that are massively better than others. Instead, we have stats that are barely better than others and a relative inability to render ourselves unable to complete content by choosing the "wrong" gear.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Funny how Japan is still pushing content despite the "useless" stat, huh? Either way, both translations I have mention intent to make Skill and Spell speed better regardless of this.

Insisting that US/EU servers aren't pushing content ? I have played on both sides of the spectrum (Malboro US) (Tonberry JP) and I have yet to see a SCH prefer SS over Crit Or DET.


And it's not being ''pigeonholed'' on to one set.Simply why weren't the coil gear given the stats rather than the WoD, now I'm being ''pigeonhold'' into converting to Demon gear rather than Dreadwyrm see where I'm going with this. Demon Belt is massively better than the Poetics Belt for SCHs seeing as the Det offsets the Mind loss and I'd take +20 crit over a sub 5 VIT loss any day......Dreadwyrm Tonban gets trumped by -11 Crit for the Demon Skirt with the +22 DET offsetting any MND loss.

And it was just a statement as in why is some of the WoD secondary stats better than the Dreadwyrm when one its i130 and two the means of acquiring it are scaled.

In all we're still all aiming at the same gearset due to what we deem ''BiS'' that has been popularized.