Why don't Allience Raids drop rings?

[tdb]

The Best In Slot for healers involves mixing Edenchoir with Augmented Chrysterium. Everything is iLvl 500. There might be a few niche cases out there where a lower ilvl gear is a better option, but the current meta is not it.

Yeah, I can see that with those options you can get i500 items in every slot without piety in any of them. But what about non-raiders who can't get Edenchoir? Take gloves for example. Augmented Crystarium has 353 mind, 281 piety and 197 determination. YoRHa Type-53 has 335 mind, 275 determination and 193 critical hit - same stats as Edenchoir but slightly lower numbers. Is 18 mind truly better than 78 determination and 193 critical hit, like Mhaeric implies?

Edit: I realize that for non-raiders gear optimization isn't really relevant. But since I play several different classes I like to spend my limited allegories on the items where I get the best results and use YoRHa or Augmented Neo-Ishgardian on the other slots.

[Imps]

I realize that for non-raiders gear optimization isn't really relevant. But since I play several different classes I like to spend my limited allegories on the items where I get the best results and use YoRHa or Augmented Neo-Ishgardian on the other slots.

You basically answered your own question here. Build an i480 equipment spread using the two, then, when you have enough tomestones, pick out which pieces are the best to swap out for. Or whatever piece you're having trouble getting dropped from YoRHa.

I main AST, and raid with that. I run dungeons using DRK for extra tomestone drops, and open world using RDM. So I get where you're coming from, but relying on crafted gear isn't bad for non-raiding classes, imho.