Current BIS for Bard

[Emblemelite]

I have yet to miss snakes or twin with 473ACC and that is 473ACC with food on and I've been clearing Turn 5 for the last month and a half.

[NightWrath]

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LG48

This is my bis, i little sacrifice on crit, to have a little more dps, i could increase the crit but then i would lose det for ss and i dont like it.

[Serdapi]

But since acc cap is lower for turns 1-4 and much lower for every other content in the game, this set is really only BiS for Turn5, right?

T5 should be what you are "gearing" for. Also if you clear t5 you should be going for the best damage set up in the game which is what Hoplite posted.

[Alcide]

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LG58 - Hoplite
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LG48 - NightWrath

I have been thinking about these two sets for a while and I really can't decide which one is better. The first one is the "official" BiS set, but honestly with 534 crit i already find myself overwhelmed by RoB procs and I don't think adding 27 crit is gonna make such a big difference... on the other hand that 261 det is quite juicy so I think I'm leaning towards NightWrath's set, mostly because replacing myth's legs is gonna make me a very sad bard :/

[Bardo]

T5 should be what you are "gearing" for. Also if you clear t5 you should be going for the best damage set up in the game which is what Hoplite posted.

You can change gear any time you're out of combat though.
So why should I gear for T5 when doing EX primals?

I think you should be "gearing" for the content you're currently playing.

[Ooshima]

You can change gear any time you're out of combat though.
So why should I gear for T5 when doing EX primals?

I think you should be "gearing" for the content you're currently playing.

For that reason I have 2 set ups. One for BC purposes, one for everything else (since outside BC contents require crap accuracy).

My non BC set I can push critical to 611 for now, and the results is pretty amazing. I've gotten like 7 crit hits in a row and in one of the EX fights, I parsered 55% critical hit rate.

[Muugen]

Don't think you can pull thoes numbers from the lavatoad legs food though

[NightWrath]

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LG58 - Hoplite
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/LG48 - NightWrath

I have been thinking about these two sets for a while and I really can't decide which one is better. The first one is the "official" BiS set, but honestly with 534 crit i already find myself overwhelmed by RoB procs and I don't think adding 27 crit is gonna make such a big difference... on the other hand that 261 det is quite juicy so I think I'm leaning towards NightWrath's set, mostly because replacing myth's legs is gonna make me a very sad bard :/

Make urs, my words.

[BrandoH]

It really just comes down to which T5 loot you get, haha.

[SamaelCulane]

I thought according to EMX's findings that DET has a higher Stat Weight compared to Crit, making BiS: WD > DEX > ACC > DET > Crit. His weights are as follows :

WD 8.683
DEX 1.000
DTR 0.314
CRT 0.269
SS 0.126