MNK endgame gear?

[Hiroichirou]

The burst damage really shows when you get STR/INT high. Take a party of full melded/geared MNK's vs. not so well geared MNK's and see who is faster at taking Mizer's Mistress down. Go ahead and spoil it for you, the melded ones by far.

of course but not by a lot , if the stats would work how they were meant to work then i agree melded + darklight would have a big advantage over avg gear , but you need either really deep pockets or a heck of a lot of time to get both i really dont see the need to after it, but thats just me, by all means feel free to drop 4-5 mil a piece or spend 4-5 months getting a single piece of gear.

[Velhart]

of course but not by a lot , if the stats would work how they were meant to work then i agree melded + darklight would have a big advantage over avg gear , but you need either really deep pockets or a heck of a lot of time to get both i really dont see the need to after it, but thats just me, by all means feel free to drop 4-5 mil a piece or spend 4-5 months getting a single piece of gear.

While I don't main MNK, I have single slotted materia gear on it, good enough to take down MM (Going to improve it to get 17 minute speed run), a MNK I played with who did have double/triple melded gear on his Monk had dramatically higher DPS than me according to the parser.

If all MNK's were like him, Mizer would go down without phase 1 even ending. So yes, getting your stats in is a major thing.

Before then I could of semi-agreed with you before they fixed the Critical Rate/Attack, which really has an effect now when stacked. On my DRG, I have Critical Attack placed in many areas along with STR/PIE, and my DPS was dramatically higher. Pulling easy 1k+ Doomspikes on Princess in CC.

For jobs like DRG and WAR, it was hard to tell much DPS before because Crit wasn't working the way it should and they didn't base themselves off burst damage like MNK and BLM did. Maybe this is where you are coming from. But ever since the fix, it is pretty ignorant to say that gear doesn't matter.