Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Mercutial]

Apparently it drops the last two bosses. Not looking forward to this weekend grind haha

[MagiusNecros]

Trying to get the body piece myself. People aren't making that easy.

[Mercutial]

When I saw the stats on that body, my heart skipped a beat. Thought I was "going green" for the forseeable future.

[Maero]

Just in case any Black Mages were wondering, The chest piece that drops in The Weeping City of Mhach is a great upgrade until you can get the chest from A8 and would be BiS if you don't do Savage. I've only seen it drop on Ozma so far, and I ran it 7 times this week.

Yep it pretty much beat my pentmelded crafted chest i had, i was lucky enough that the chest dropped and i got it
Hooray for my luck finally changing.
Now my ss and crit is higher, soo sad loosing all that materia though

edit: as a reference here is the chest piece Blm chest

[MagiusNecros]

Quick question. Is Det more or less worthless?

[Garotte14]

Quick question. Is Det more or less worthless?

It's not worthless, but should be your lowest priority. You shouldn't meld any Det. Meld SS, Crit, Accuracy and even piety. The only Det you should have is the Det already on BiS pieces.

[Zanarkander]

Do you think putting some piety in the Anima weapon might be a good idea? Because that way you can allocate exactly how much points you need instead of wasting some by melding materia on gear.

[Garotte14]

Do you think putting some piety in the Anima weapon might be a good idea? Because that way you can allocate exactly how much points you need instead of wasting some by melding materia on gear.

I see two sides of it. On the one hand, yes it makes perfect sense to put the exact piety you need on your weapon instead of potentially going over on your gear. But also, the Piety you need will not change and your weapon will. For example, if you put enough pie to equal 284, then whenever you upgrade your relic on the next step, every stat will scale up. So then there's the question of how difficult or time consuming it will be to reallocate points. Also, I haven't messed with the relic to much on this step, but isn't there a randomization to the points you put on there?

[MagiusNecros]

The 5 stats have a cap and each sand grants 3 points each but you can allocate every point on a 1:1 ratio.

So if you had 25 points you could put 5 in each one if you wanted to.

[Zanarkander]

I see two sides of it. On the one hand, yes it makes perfect sense to put the exact piety you need on your weapon instead of potentially going over on your gear. But also, the Piety you need will not change and your weapon will. For example, if you put enough pie to equal 284, then whenever you upgrade your relic on the next step, every stat will scale up. So then there's the question of how difficult or time consuming it will be to reallocate points. Also, I haven't messed with the relic to much on this step, but isn't there a randomization to the points you put on there?

Not really. You get a "random" amount of Treated Sand (3 to 5) from each Crystal Sand + Umbrite, then you can use the Treated Sand to allocate every point individually.
Achieving 284 with materia would use 3 slots for me (Highlander Hyur) since I need 26 more piety. 3 slots would mean an additional 36 Crit VS 26 points in the weapon. I think I'll take the risk, considering how changing Novus stat was fairly easy...
Thanks for your reply!