So, now Monk/Dragoon have to compete with yet another class?

[Alberel]

Please, EVERYONE who believes this, do me a favour.
Go in game, open your character sheet and hover over Dexterity.
"Affects physical ranged damage, as well as parry and block rates".

Logic dictates they will use STRENGTH.

So happy to be able to quote people like this with a huge 'I told you so' now that we have confirmation that NIN uses dex as per the latest live letter.

So many people in this thread look silly now.

[Sousoulsu]

06-16-2014 05:22 PM

Please check dates before you post.

Never~

Still relevant. Huhu~

Inc the well-deserved "told ya so"'s :3c

[Niqote]

It seems to me that since NIN is a DEX based job it is most likely they will share bard or get their own set ... they only share MNK gear up to 2.3 because by damn its cheaper that way.


EDIT
Curses! Foiled by the Necro bump once again!!!!

[Zumi]

I think SE is going to go back and put dex on all monk gear retro activity then they will share gear with monk going forward.

[Beebles]

I think it more likely they share BRD gear up to 2.3 stuff, simply because their main stat is Dexterity.

[Velox]

I think SE is going to go back and put dex on all monk gear retro activity then they will share gear with monk going forward.

Most likely. They did that with a lot of pre-50 DoM gear that has both MND and INT on the same piece. It's only post-50 do we really start seeing gear divergence.

Also, I'm glad they are taking the more lore-focused approach I predicted months ago instead of just taking the easy way out that everyone was so sure they would do.

[ZReport]

For the people that thought a stat which increases ranged attack damage was going to increase damage with a class that uses daggers yes it was.

Not needed. Also is shows you have general incompetence on how development works. They could simply make Dual Wield damage be based on DEX. Yoshida even claims it to be a special weapon type. If this is not the case, nothing is stopping them from making DEX affect these weapons regardless of the type.

Either way, both STR and DEX exist on much of the DPS gear, so most people who level DRG, BRD and/or MNK and are interested in NIN are pretty much covered.

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Point I'm trying to make is, no one knows what the job will entail as far as abilities, or how stats will affect said abilities. NIN might be STR based, and have abilities primarily affected by DEX. It might have a special weapon type, of which the damage is tied to DEX. It might be STR based as normal. It might not. No one knows.

However, I'll tell you what -- someone on reddit just recently found that there have been Rogue traits added to the game's data files already. And with those traits DEX traits were added as well. Anyone can see it themselves on FFXIVDB under 2.28 Abilities.

Shoutouts to Jaykos on all of Page 13.

[Havenchild]

I'm fairly sure a dev or in a live letter long before quoted it was likely going to be DEX based. For anyone to be surprised now, doesn't really pay attention. I long felt it would be DEX based because I felt they had said so already. Of course people were fast to assume, "I hit with weapons, I must be STR based.". They also use something akin to Magic, that makes perfect sense to use on an STR stat for that.

[Gilthas]

I'm fairly sure a dev or in a live letter long before quoted it was likely going to be DEX based. For anyone to be surprised now, doesn't really pay attention. I long felt it would be DEX based because I felt they had said so already. Of course people were fast to assume, "I hit with weapons, I must be STR based.". They also use something akin to Magic, that makes perfect sense to use on an STR stat for that.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that they first announced that it would be STR based. But it could have been something lost in translation.

[Kiroh]

Piercing Talon, Shield Lob, and Tomahawk are not affected by DEX.
They are very clearly "Ranged attacks".
The stat descriptions ingame are absolute nonsense with only the vaguest suggestion for what the stats do.

Rogue and Ninja will use Dexterity.

Keep making the same argument in every thread you possibly can, it won't change the fact that ninja is going to be a STR melee dps.

Also, nice necrobump.