Dragoon's ilvl330 weapon.

[enthauptet]

This is generally how it is when it comes to raid gear, though they do make it so that items of the same ilvl tier do not share the same stat breakdowns (high ss/low crit, for example), though weapon damage typically wins out in the end anyway. Worse case of this would've been way back in heavensward when the thordan weapoins for MCH/BRD had the same weapon damage as the gordian ones despite the latter being higher ilvl.

Don't remind me, the thordan bow was better than the 210 tome one lol.

I think with materias the effect of craptastic substats is lessened compared to before. Generally wd upgrade is always an upgrade though.

[Waliel]

Oh i know weapon damage> other stats but still wonder if they take the time to play the jobs rather then just adding whatever stats which are not even beneficial to said job, lol

I'll bet my left sock that they do know what is optimal and what is not, but it's all on purpose. Otherwise we'd only have identical gear with only numbers increasing by ten or whatever on every tier, and I'd say that would be even worse.

[Kaalia_Stormborn]

I'll bet my left sock that they do know what is optimal and what is not, but it's all on purpose. Otherwise we'd only have identical gear with only numbers increasing by ten or whatever on every tier, and I'd say that would be even worse.

So much in this expansion just seems like it was strung together in the last minute, it wouldn't surprise me if this was the case. Hearing that we have the potential to hit the 90th percentile without stacking SPS to the heavens though, makes me feel a little less iffy about upgrades that don't have our "ideal" primary stats.

Edit: Posted in the wrong thread XD , should be for BLM, but my DRG feels the same way about stats :]

[Lollie]

Looking at the gear sets as a whole, in a vaccum, it looks like they do know what they are doing (this patch).
Looking at drg from a gear up stand point looks like they know what they are doing also.
In v1-2s (what you are expected to clear with a susano wep) possible gear stats favor lowering over all skill speed. The LA weapon when purchased would stabalize skill speed lost and bring it on par with your pre gear up potential values. Which would keep your rotation relatively the same pace.

If you are completely unlucky like me and get unfavorable stat drop only gear upgrades, then yes the skill speed is a disgusting mess of a too fast rotation. (I may very well beat a mnk with gl3 up in gcd recast atm)