Why do Ninja and Monk use different gear?

[ruskie]

You can see this in that for all post 50 gear ninja can wear from before they were added, is shared with mnk.

No the reason they share is because they needed to give them some sort of gear because they were not about to make full gearsets - they just added DEX and NIN/ROG to the MNK gears for that time. And MNK fit better for the melee aspect of NIN than BRD did.

[AltanRapsied]

They may add samurai on mnk though...

[SendohJin]

They may add samurai on mnk though...

they should add SAM to DRG. combine MNK and NIN again.

yes, it would be ideal to have gear for every job but since the dev resources are not available, it makes sense visually to pair them up that way.

what i would like to see for shared gear with 3 new jobs.

WAR/DRK - heavy armor - like Binding Coil, Odin
PLD/RDM - plated robes - like Second Coil, CT, WoD
MNK/NIN - like CT
DRG/SAM - light armor, chain mail
BRD/MCH - vest, shirts
BLM/SMN - robes
WHM/AST - robes
SCH/ some healer - half gowns/robes

[Gralna]

No the reason they share is because they needed to give them some sort of gear because they were not about to make full gearsets - they just added DEX and NIN/ROG to the MNK gears for that time. And MNK fit better for the melee aspect of NIN than BRD did.

If they had planned to make Nin dex based from the start, it would of been much easier to have them share gear with brd, instead of having them share with mnk, and adding dex to all mnk gear.