cashmere gear... what a gil sink

[jars]

an entire set based on spell speed. what's the point?

[Velox]

Some people prefer spell speed builds

[Lyrinn]

Good for WHM, sorry SCHs. Although it depends on what the crit cap is on these things and if you're fine with having less Piety.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Should be able to meld it up some. Not as much as initially foretold e.g. Tier V materia.

I suspect Tier V will have things like +9 Piety/Determination or +13 Critical/Spell Speed/Accuracy. Two of those suckers and you likely have something marginally better than Myth or Coil One drops. Forbidden meld it if feeling saucy and it'll be the best i90 you can get.

Alas, without Tier V, it has made the journey less fruitful at this time.

[Lyrinn]

vs.

vs.

I don't know about other WHMs, but those definitely look like upgrades to me.

[jars]

I don't know about other WHMs, but those definitely look like upgrades to me.

allagan gear exists

melding my vanya was tough enough. I don't even want to think about melding 34 crit onto this.

[Raestloz]

I don't know about other WHMs, but those definitely look like upgrades to me.

Losing determination and piety for spell speed which will only improve your recast by 0.01 seconds looks like a downgrade to me.

Especially when server latency will make up for that Spell Speed (by not casting the spell at all)

[Lyrinn]

Losing determination and piety for spell speed which will only improve your recast by 0.01 seconds looks like a downgrade to me.

What? For both top and bottom you're trading piety for determination. You're gaining determination, and if you care about Piety that much, just meld it on.

[Rbstr]

What? For both top and bottom you're trading piety for determination. You're gaining determination, and if you care about Piety that much, just meld it on.

That's a lot of piety to miss and a lot of melding to get it back. I've always found mana to be the biggest issue rather than actual healing throughput.
I suppose if you're using allagan/Gerolt/primal weapons.

[KageNeko]

Losing determination and piety for spell speed which will only improve your recast by 0.01 seconds looks like a downgrade to me.

Especially when server latency will make up for that Spell Speed (by not casting the spell at all)

actually you gain 31 determination and 24 spellspeed, but lose 52 pie if you upgrade both. then meld some pie IV's