As far as DRG goes, I was taught early on that Str, Det, and Crit were all I needed to worry about keeping up during the 2.x era. Now it seems like every Item I get is Acc+SkS, Det+Sks, or Crit+Sks, so is skill speed all of a sudden relevent to DRG? Cause I keep seeing major drops in my DPS with the amounts to Crit and Det I'm losing to Skill speed here. It's like the extra weapon power and defence isn't worth the loss of stats going from 180 to 200 equipment.

I'm getting all the Esoteric Gear anyway just incase it makes a better combo with the Void Ark gear but all in all I'm almost entirely disappointed with the Esoteric Gear and 3.0 Gear in general. I had full Asurian 180 gear before my stats were as good as they were at i130 in 2.55.

So am I missing something or does the Dragoon Gear right now just suck?