Should Alexander hard drop highest item level gear?

[KarmaCha]

Understand that Coil may have the 'best' drops (best being subjective, there's some Dreadwyrm pieces that are only good for iL) but they were released months ago. In a game where gearing is the goal you can't leave people to get left behind. Especially with Heavensward just around the corner. As such, Square gave everyone the option of an alternate means of gearing in the form of tome and crafted gear (some of the iL 110 crafted gear is by and far better than Dreadwyrm, and that's before materia). This sentiment that Coil equivalent gear should only be obtainable by those who can complete Coil is entirely selfish and shouldn't be promoted to any degree. "You aren't the only hero."

False. If you really think i110 non melded gear is better than anything i130, you need to research stat weights.

[Gilraen]

False. If you really think i110 non melded gear is better than anything i130, you need to research stat weights.

Well, I was using gear I have as a reference. I haven't melded my arachne healer legs yet but it's still better than anything else I can get for my conjurer.

[KarstenS]

Well, I was using gear I have as a reference. I haven't melded my arachne healer legs yet but it's still better than anything else I can get for my conjurer.

Huh?

Arachne stats in HQ:

VIT 41
MND 39
ACC 8
DET 20
PIE 31


4 DET = 1 MND. So the 20 DET are 5 MND. So it would be like 44 MND

DW Pants of Healing:

VIT 53
MND 50
PIE 36
ACC 9
Crit 33

Even without the crit, the DW pants are stronger than the Arachne non melded pant and you would need to meld 26 DET and 5 PIE to reach the same level (ignoring crit and the 12 points VIT).

Source? I never heard them say that at all! The Devs said Alexander NM(or HM w/e people call the easier one now days.)

Youmissed the very first announcement of Heavendsward in autum? There it got said.

[RiceisNice]

He's not that far off when you consider something like Kirimu Coat vs Augmented top vs Dreadwyrm, especially when a lot of the bard pieces either lack accuracy, or has it paired with skill speed. Granted this comes far into the game when you already have XYZ dreadwyrm pieces versus init ally gearing up, but I didn't have any trouble with hp checks when I was doing T13 with my kirimu coat still.