2.3 BiS Bard Equips?

[Eskuire]

Hey guys, I noticed there's a lot of Best in Slot gears online but many of them focus on 2.2 patches, -some- you find using the Weathered stuff from Soldiery, others the Allagon etc.

But I've noticed a lot of Bards in game (least on Malboro) who are rocking the Saurian Equipment (The crafted one in HQ) and loaded up with Materia. The problem is that now that the patch is still relatively new, I was curious if anyone knows if this Saurian gear has replaced the others in terms of BiS? Or is a sacrificing of Def and Magic Defense to get the added benefit of materia?

Some insight would be helpful, cause I'm to the point where I either start grinding for those, or grinding to get the Soldiery stuff / Sands / Oils etc.

[LunarEmerald]

2.2 BiS is still BiS. Pentamelded 90 gear doesn't compare to 110.

[Eskuire]

Gotcha, thanks for the info. Though, I am getting kinda curious why I see so many bards in Malboro rocking out in Saurian. It's not glamour'd either, it's straight up equipped on them and decked out in Materia.

Maybe for frontline?

/shrug

Thanks though ^^

[Ooshima]

Nope. Most likely these characters are alternates, or new people who just gained access to coil. Alternately, some of these Saurian pieces when melded are better than the i100 gears until they got their HA BiS drops.

Saurian pants/skirt is largely popular due to Bards having accuracy issues down the line. However, it is now solved in a sense that Syrus Tower drops a very nice i100 accuracy pants.

[Viridiana]

2.2 BiS is still BiS. Pentamelded 90 gear doesn't compare to 110.

Actually, I ran the BiS solver on ariyala before 2.3 hit and was consistently getting i90 gear in my BiS sets. Average ilvl was usually around 105. Granted, it was SkSp heavy, but it still had a higher weight. . .

[ziddyt]

If you believe in stat weights, they will actually tell you non body/pants crafted left side will be BiS, as well as the new Ramuh ring.

[NyssaElf]

What about the amon stuff? The hands and feet are both crit/acc

[Kuwagami]

I made this a few weeks ago, not including T9 drops. It may not be optimal but it seemed pretty good : (I need to work on a crit/det novus set, it may be better)

artemis novus 44acc/31 det
HA mask (T7)
auroral tabard
HA gloves (T7)
HA breeches (T8)
auroral sash
HA boots (T6)
HA choker (T8)
auroral earring
HA bracelet (T7)
auroral ring
HA ring (T8)
black truffle risotto HQ

costs 2 oils and 2 sands of time

stats for Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun
576 dext / 511 acc / 496 crit / 331 deter / 408 skillspeed / 467 vita



Edit :

artemis novus 44 crit/31 det
HA mask (T7)
auroral tabard
HA gloves (T7)
HA breeches (T8)
auroral sash
HA boots (T6)
auroral choker
auroral earring
auroral wristlet
auroral ring
HA ring (T8)
black truffle risotto HQ

costs 4 oils and 2 sands of time

stats for Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun
576 dext / 505 acc / 522 crit / 345 deter / 370 skillspeed / 467 vita

As I don't know the effect of dropping acc for T9, it seems sub-par. Though if getting to 505 doesn't drop too much the hit %, you'll get +26 crit and +14 determination at the cost of 38 SkSp.

[RathSkybreaker]

BiS list never changed in 2.3, if you use anything sub i110 you're losing out on main stat, and any bard that thinks that's worth secondary stat doesn't understand how min maxing works in this game xD

T_T though I wish that wasn't the case and we would have gotten even i111 gear T_T

[Viridiana]

BiS list never changed in 2.3, if you use anything sub i110 you're losing out on main stat, and any bard that thinks that's worth secondary stat doesn't understand how min maxing works in this game xD

Yep, I mean, there's no way that 20 Crit at a .315 weighting makes up for a loss of 6 Dex, or that the 20 SkSp at a .146 weight you can add in on top of that Crit could make up for the 1 Determination loss at a .318 weight. I mean, surely there's no conceivable way that i90 boots could beat the 110 boots!

/sarcasm