MNK/DRG melee role itemisation

[pompey_dan]

Please for the love of god SE make slaying gear for MNK/DRG instead of limiting us to only one job by having separate maiming/striking gear with the exact same looks just a slightly different skin...

Seriously, 3 tanks share gear, 2 ranged share gear, 3 healers share gear, 2 casters share gear, melee drg/mnk with exact same stats and role? Nope you cant share gear. Nin also but they are dex so should perhaps share scouting gear.

Its so annoying only being able to play either monk or dragoon whilst tanks and healers etc. all swap between jobs as they please.

[Korashy]

I agree, to be honest i'd be fine with having the melee able to switch between all 3 jobs based on the encounter.

[Calis]

Past lv50, DRG started to share tank gear in terms of design though. And I think it's NIN and MNK that share the gear design now, but not sure about that one.

That said, stat-wise MNK and DRG share, so yeah. I agree that it'd be more convenient if they shared gear too. But going forward, maybe when we get another heavy-armored dps, DRG can share gear with that job.

[HeavensSword]

As stated, stat-wise it doesn't make sense. I much prefer though that a MNK look like a MNK and DRG like DRG.

[pompey_dan]

The latest Alexander gear is exactly the same design for drg/mnk just slightly different colours.
Law gear is also exactly the same between drg/mnk just different colours.

[HeavensSword]

The latest Alexander gear is exactly the same design for drg/mnk just slightly different colours.
Law gear is also exactly the same between drg/mnk just different colours.

Right and I'd rather they do more to differentiate them

[alsims2007]

As much as I'd like to agree, I saw first hand the issue with blm and son sharing gear in 2.4+. So now against jobs sharing gear.

[Kuroyasha]

well for now most likely the esoteric tomes will be the af2 gear for each job so we'll all have to choose anyway, until people start farming savage weekly. But yea I used to wish for the same thing. But then....then they screwed over smn with al the spell speed, and i never wished again.

[seekified]

It'd be better if each job got their own sets, tbh. Aesthetics-wise there should be enormous differences between each of the jobs within each role, and I'm frankly surprised they don't put more effort into making each job look unique. The fact that casters and ranged share their AF sets is just dumb.

Stats-wise I imagine the differences as to what each job wants are much smaller now than they were in the past (DRGs like skillspeed now, lolwhut) but still.

[TunaBass]

I would like the point out the fact DRG gear tend to have more physical defense out of the 3 melee dps. That and seeing how NIN uses dex instead of str, I can see why DRG, MNK, and NIN can't share the same gear unless it gets changed.