Another quick question: Ast secondary stats.

[loreleidiangelo]

Well, it kinda depends on what Sect you're primarily using and what content you're doing. My perspective came as a Noct AST in a midcore raiding team doing Omega Savage progression. If you're a DiAST doing mostly dungeons then your choices might be a bit different.

[Renryuu]

Well, it kinda depends on what Sect you're primarily using and what content you're doing. My perspective came as a Noct AST in a midcore raiding team doing Omega Savage progression. If you're a DiAST doing mostly dungeons then your choices might be a bit different.

At the moment, it's just dungeons. I'm a bit nervous trying EX primals, since I never did them in the past and I don't have a static for Omega and I've no idea how people are with it in the DF.

I've personally never considered more PIE to be a bad thing, though I know many do and are viewing it the way tanks viewed HP where "enough to survive" was all you need and anything extra was wasted. But in both these cases, imo, it's dependant on the skill of the player and of the party, tank busters are not the most challenging healing, and likewise scripted content where things go smoothly and your MP needs are predetermined are not the end-all of healing in this game. More MP/HP than necessary is *never* a bad thing, just perhaps not as valuable as some Crit or DET. Think for yourself and learn through trial and error—even the cutting edge WHM/AST stat preferences will vary.

Well I mostly been stack PIE sine I notice I keep going to half or less MP on pulls in dungeons so I've been stacking it to try and mitigate that. Though I do like the idea of always having more MP, but that may just come from playing other FF games where you have to use expensive potions to restore MP so having more MP to last longer was always a blessing.

[GeekMatt]

Here's a world-first AST; http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/12172164/

I can't make sense of all of their choices but the left side is similar to what I'd go for, and as you can see, lots of PIE melds, with 1571 PIE. Though they likely don't consider their own gear to be "BIS", rather the best they could get before hoping into the new savage content.

[BloodRubyXII]

Here's a world-first AST; http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/12172164/

I can't make sense of all of their choices but the left side is similar to what I'd go for, and as you can see, lots of PIE melds, with 1571 PIE. Though they likely don't consider their own gear to be "BIS", rather the best they could get before hoping into the new savage content.

Don't just blindly copy world first players like the above post has just suggested to, especially if you don't know why you're doing it; because I highly doubt you have this kind of gear to warrant it and you aren't clearing content at the level he is.

[GeekMatt]

Don't just blindly copy world first players like the above post has just suggested to, especially if you don't know why you're doing it; because I highly doubt you have this kind of gear to warrant it and you aren't clearing content at the level he is.

Not at all what I was suggesting, following along the thread I'd said "think for yourself", this was a point of reference as in "person X Says meld DH or you're bad. Person B says don't meld PIE or you're bad. This top tier healer melds PIE and Crit".

[LegoTechnic]

Not at all what I was suggesting, following along the thread I'd said "think for yourself", this was a point of reference as in "person X Says meld DH or you're bad. Person B says don't meld PIE or you're bad. This top tier healer melds PIE and Crit".

World progression gear sets will almost always initially stress PIE and VIT until the fight is learned. As gear is replaced, they'll begin to reduce the those melds as needed, but the initial set will almost always be filled in a way that allows for the most adaptability. If this had been a raiding tier like Gordias where progression was gated for weeks by gear level and DPS checks then you may have seen them actually change a few pieces as the fight was learned, but Omega was all cleared in 1-2 days so this kind of re-optimization just wasn't needed; there wasn't enough time to worry about it.