Vanya Gear Set...Not As Good As I thought?

[Condottiero]

Go to DL lady, screen shot DL piece X, go to AH, screen shot Vanya HQ piece X. Melding multiple IV onto Vanya will run you an extra 150k/materia. Not counting the guy you have to pay to meld it. You could do all of this yourself though for less than a tenth of the cost in a relatively short amount of time and set yourself up for when the lvl cap is raised and all of this gear is worthless.

[Condottiero]

My logic 2 months ago: Okay I need a relic and sexy gear. Relic is 900 tomes and will allow me access to sexy content. Need that first. DL requires tomes: fook that. (You have 3 million, you can buy the materials for leves and lvl 6 crafts from 0-50 in probably 2 weeks playing casually). So I crafted my gear, got relic with tomes, went to T1 of the coil and got allagan body first time.

[Nukocafe]

as a scholar I wouldn't go with the Vanya set anyway. I just wanted the robe but looking at stats of other items I'm mixing & matching things like Spruce Pattens and DL pants.
I think it's a good idea to check out what stats each gives and which one you feel is better for you. Obviously Mind and Piety are gonna be mostly the same but then you will have difference with things like Spell Speed, Determination and Critical.

[KyteStones]

as a scholar I wouldn't go with the Vanya set anyway. I just wanted the robe but looking at stats of other items I'm mixing & matching things like Spruce Pattens and DL pants.
I think it's a good idea to check out what stats each gives and which one you feel is better for you. Obviously Mind and Piety are gonna be mostly the same but then you will have difference with things like Spell Speed, Determination and Critical.

For a BLM to notice any significant change to spell speed, we would have to dump everything we had into gear that has high spell speed and it's just not worth it. There's a google doc that shows it somewhere, I don't have it bookmarked on this pc. I'm gonna give Pofo's guide a shot and see where it lands me. Thanks for the replies everyone.

[ufufu]

as a scholar I wouldn't go with the Vanya set anyway. I just wanted the robe but looking at stats of other items I'm mixing & matching things like Spruce Pattens and DL pants.
I think it's a good idea to check out what stats each gives and which one you feel is better for you. Obviously Mind and Piety are gonna be mostly the same but then you will have difference with things like Spell Speed, Determination and Critical.

Frankly, the Myth upgrades are better and far cheaper to get than Vanya.

[Bufkus]

as a scholar I wouldn't go with the Vanya set anyway. I just wanted the robe but looking at stats of other items I'm mixing & matching things like Spruce Pattens and DL pants.
I think it's a good idea to check out what stats each gives and which one you feel is better for you. Obviously Mind and Piety are gonna be mostly the same but then you will have difference with things like Spell Speed, Determination and Critical.

really... you don't want the added crit you could get using vanya robe/hat and crit materia?

Frankly, the Myth upgrades are better and far cheaper to get than Vanya.

Sure, if you've been saving up myths for weeks. Otherwise no, vanya is cheaper to get. All you have to do is buy it or buy some materials and craft it yourself. For AF2 you have to farm 300 myths a week until you have enough (minimum 3 weeks for body or pants), and for allagans well you need to be geared to get into coil in the first place...

[Nukocafe]

really... you don't want the added crit you could get using vanya robe/hat and crit materia?

I actually plan to invest in having my friend craft me a rose gold circlet instead because its exactly like the vanya head but gives intelligence & determination rather than Piety which I don't need that much of as I'm not a white mage. Instead, I usually try to help with a bit of DPS when no one needs healing (since I'm a scholar).

Also you're making the assumption I'm rich as hell and can afford to buy a bunch of level 3 materias to burn through trying to overmeld them :P
Also on my server I bought my Vanya robe for 275k.

[Terius]

As much as I would like to have a set, I'm just not gonna spend millions of gil on it. DL works fine and I'll let a bit of time pass as it'll all be Myth gear.

[Incatasi]

The Vanya set is better than DL, but only just a slight margin.

So it's really up to you if you wanna drop that kind of cash on some gear you're only going to use to get to Myth/Alla gear, or save it for something down the road. Honestly, I'd just save it, the crafted gear is barely better than DL, you prolly wont even notice the difference.

[Evangela]

even with 5 matarias, it's not as good as AF2 or Allagan.